Dental_consonant Dental_consonant

Dental consonant - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Affirmative, Allophone, Alveolar, Apical, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilated, Assimilation, Automatic, Back, Balanced, Bilabial
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 [t̪oɾo] bull

IPA-voiced_dental_plosive.png
image:IPA-voiced_dental_plosive.png

voiced dental plosive Spanish donde [d̪ɔn̪d̪e] where

IPA-dental_nasal.png
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Dental nasal Spanish onda [ɔn̪d̪a] wave

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

dental flap

IPA-dental_trill.png
image:IPA-dental_trill.png

dental trill Marshallese Ebadon [e.bɑ.r̪on̪] 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 l̪inp [l̪inp] armpit
image:Xsampa-barslash.png dental click Xhosa ukúkǀola [ukukǀola] to grind fine

See also

Example Usage of consonant
bjomeliga: If I speak at one constant volume,at one constant pitch, at one consonant rhythm rigt into your ear YOU STILL WON'T HEAR.
PlagueCat: 'Hey, Carol Vorderman's name begins with a consonant!' - @hanaames
cmalave: "I cannot follow Jesus any which way I like. My following must be consonant with his leading"
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