In English , we have a few unlike ways to write the auditory sensation of a osculation : muah , smack , xxx . They get the idea across , but none of them copy the existent speech sound of a kiss . Other languages have the same problem . In Thai it’schup ; in German , schmatz ; in Greek , mat - muts ; in Malayalam , umma ; and in Japanese , chu .
There are two common constituent in osculation words across languages . First , a osculation word will commonly have a sound made by press the lips together ( m , p , b ) , which approximates the lip pursing of a actual kiss . In accession , or instead , it may have a penetrative , “ noisy ” sound ( ch , ts , k ) that approximates the air intake “ click ” of a tangible kiss .
What ’s needed for a unfeigned kiss phone is a room to comprise the slap sound because of the inspiration of breeze through unopen back talk . as luck would have it , linguistics has one .
The kiss sound is similara bilabial linguistic ingressive clink . “ Bilabial ” because of the lip , “ linguistic ingressive ” because the zephyr intake is have by a press drop in the mouth stimulate by legal action of the knife ( in other word , suck ) , and “ clack ” for the pop of firing from the pressure change . There are language in the Tuu and Kx’a language families of Southern Africa that use this audio .
TheInternational Phonetic Alphabet , the measure for representing the sounds of the world ’s spoken languages , has a symbol for it : ʘ . ( There are alsovideos demonstratinghow to pronounce it . ) Technically , to show the direction peoples ’ lips protrude when they cockle up , the best means towrite a kisssound would be ʘʷ.
A version of this chronicle primitively ran in 2014 ; it has been updated for 2023 .
