Dental Dental

Dental - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Alveolar, Apical, Assimilated, Back, Bicuspid, Bilabial, Central, Cerebral, Chiropractic, Clinical, Consonant, Dorsal
Places of articulation
Labial consonant
Bilabial consonant
Labiodental consonant
Linguolabial consonant
Coronal consonant
Interdental consonant
Dental consonant
Retroflex consonant
Alveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonant
Alveolo-palatal consonant
Dorsal consonant
Palatal consonant
Labial-palatal consonant 
Velar consonant
Labial-velar consonant
Uvular consonant
Pharyngeal consonant
Epiglottal consonant
Glottal consonant
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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

IPA-voiceless_dental_plosive.png
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voiceless dental plosive Spanish toro [oɾo] bull

IPA-voiced_dental_plosive.png
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voiced dental plosive Spanish donde [ɔn̪e] where

IPA-dental_nasal.png
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Dental nasal Spanish onda d̪a] wave

IPA-dental_flap.png
image:IPA-dental_flap.png

dental flap

IPA-dental_trill.png
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dental trill Marshallese Ebadon [e.bɑ.on̪] Ebadon
image:Xsampa-T2.png voiceless dental fricative English thing [θiŋ] thing
image:Xsampa-D2.png voiced dental fricative English this [ðɪs] this

IPA-voiced_dental_approximant.png
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voiced dental approximant Spanish codo [koð̞o] elbow

IPA-dental_lateral_approximant.png
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dental lateral approximant Kaititj inp [inp] armpit
image:Xsampa-barslash.png dental click Xhosa ukúkǀola [ukukǀola] to grind fine

See also

Example Usage of Dental

MattC86: Dental hygiene is very important during football matches!
science_book: Milk Fluoridation for the Prevention of Dental Caries: 2009 Update - by J Banoczy et al. - World Health Organization. http://j.mp/3Nax12
dental_jobs: Dental Assistant - La Plata MD - Dental Assistant Mission The mission for the Dental Assistant http://sh-ur.info/de/MD
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