/p/
de la Cruz & Zorc, 1968 · Unit Two, §2.1 · revisions in green
The phoneme /p/ is a voiceless bilabial stop. It occurs in initial, medial, and final position, and contrasts consistently with /b/ in all environments.3
Recent fieldwork confirms this distribution holds across all recorded dialectal variants surveyed since 1968, with no evidence of positional neutralization reported in younger speakers.
Cross-reference
Compare the voicing pattern described here with the velar fricative discussed in Unit One, §6 — the two are historically related reflexes in the West Visayan sound system.
Examples: pila "how much," hapon "afternoon," tap-ak "flat." Minimal pairs with /b/ include pala vs. bala.