illabiality

English

Etymology

From il- +‎ labiality or illabial +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈleɪbiælɪti/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈlæebiɛləti/

Noun

illabiality (uncountable)

1. (phonetics) The state or condition of being illabial or unrounded.
   • 1991, Marcel Erdal, Old Turkic Word Formation: A Functional Approach to the Lexicon, Volumes 1-2‎^[1], page 18:

     /ɪ/ shares narrowness and illabiality with /i/, but, on the other hand, backness and illabiality with /a/: two traits, that is, in each case.

   • 2007, Juhani Nuorluoto, “The Interchangeability of the Graphemes <o> and <ъ> in Old Russian Birchbark Documents: A Graphical Effect or a Reflection of Sound Change in Progress?”, in Slavica Helsingiensia‎^[2], volume 32, pages 184–185:

     It is significant to note that the illabiality is also reflected in early Christian borrowings such as Fi. pappi ‘priest’ < Sl. păpŭ (trad. popъ); cf. as well as in the unstressed position Fi. Raamattu ‘Bible’ < Sl. grāmătā (trad. gramota).

   • 2013, Bülent Gül, Ferruh Ağca, Faruk Gökçe, editors, Bengü Bitig. Dursun Yıldırım Armağanı‎^[3], page 553:

     An exception in the context of the generally accepted original illabiality of +lık is L. Johanson and his 1979 study "Die westoghusische Labialharmonie" (here cited after his volume of reprints: Johanson 1991: 26-70).