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Dental consonant

Dentals are consonants articulated with either the lower or the upper teeth, or both. In French, Italian, and Spanish t, d, n, and l are all dental, whereas they are alveolar in English.

The dental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
dental nasal Spanish onda d̪a] wave
voiceless dental plosive Spanish toro [oɾo] bull
voiced dental plosive Spanish donde [ɔn̪e] where
image:Xsampa-T2.png voiceless dental fricative English thing [θiŋ] thing
image:Xsampa-D2.png voiced dental fricative English this [ðɪs] this
voiced dental approximant Spanish codo [koð̞o] elbow
dental lateral approximant Kaititj inp [inp] armpit
dental flap
dental trill Marshallese Ebadon [e.bɑ.on̪] Ebadon
dental ejective
voiced dental implosive
image:Xsampa-barslash.png dental click Xhosa ukúkǀola [ukukǀola] to grind fine

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