The ongoing process of removing or losing the labial quality from a speech sound.
The present participle of 'delabialize,' formed with the suffix '-ing' to show the action in progress or as a noun referring to the process itself.
Languages are living things always changing—delabializing shows how right now, even today, speech sounds in various languages are losing their lip-rounding properties, a change that takes centuries but never stops.
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