Dental consonant

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Dentals or Dental consonants are coronal consonants, meaning they are made by touching the front of the tongue to the upper teeth. For example, th in the English word thing is a dental consonant written [θ], these is a dental consonant written [ð].

List of dental consonants

Dental/denti-alveolar consonants as transcribed by the International Phonetic Alphabet include:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
n̪ voiced dental nasal Russian банк / bank [ban̪k] 'bank'
t̪ voiceless dental plosive Finnish tutti [t̪ut̪ːi] 'pacifier'
d̪ voiced dental plosive Arabic دين / din [d̪iːn] 'religion'
s̪ voiceless dental sibilant fricative Polish kosa [kɔs̪a] 'scythe'
z̪ voiced dental sibilant fricative Polish koza [kɔz̪a] 'goat'
θ voiceless dental nonsibilant fricative
(also often called "interdental")		 English thing [θɪŋ]
ð voiced dental nonsibilant fricative
(also often called "interdental")		 English this [ðɪs]
ð̞ voiced dental approximant Spanish codo [koð̞o] 'elbow'
l̪ voiced dental lateral approximant Spanish alto [al̪t̪o] 'tall'
t̪ʼ dental ejective stop Dahalo [t̪ʼat̪t̪a] 'hair'
ɗ̪ voiced dental implosive Sindhi ڏسڻي [ɗ̪əsɪɳiː] 'forefinger'
k͡ǀ q͡ǀ
ɡ͡ǀ ɢ͡ǀ
ŋ͡ǀ ɴ͡ǀ		 dental clicks (many different consonants) Xhosa ukúcola [ukʼúkǀola] 'to grind fine'
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