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Dental Consonant

A dental consonant, dental or more briefly, means, articulatory phonetics , a consonant apical whose place of articulation is at the level of teeth and is made by a reconciliation between the tip of the tongue and teeth. For fricatives , the tongue is placed between the teeth and the other behind the teeth of the upper jaw.

The French has dentals Dentale API

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) uses a common symbol for consonants pulmonary dental, alveolar and post-alveolar , except for fricatives and affricates. It uses the diacritic ( supported bridge ) where it is necessary to differentiate the dentals (post-) alvolaires.

The International Phonetic Alphabet identifies dentals following:

API Description Example
Language Spelling API Meaning
t Occlusive dental deaf Spanish t e you
d Occlusive dental fricative Spanish n d e d where
n Occlusive voiced dental nasal Spanish o n da wave
Beaten dental fricative
r Rolled dental fricative Marshallese Eba d we Ebadon
Dental fricative deaf English my th s Math
Voiced dental fricative English th e the
Voiced dental fricative Spanish d co o elbow
l Voiced dental lateral approximant Spanish the igar flirt
| Dental click Xhosa uku c ola grind
Injective dental
t Occlusive dental ejective

See also

Points of articulation
Labial Bilabial Labio-dental
Coronal
( apical , laminal )
Lingual-labial Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar alveolo-palatal retroflex
Dorsal Palatal velar Labio-velar Bellwort
Pharyngeal / Glottal Pharyngeal epiglottal Glottal
Multiple Labio-palatal Labial-velar Post-alveolar-velar
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