Dental consonant

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A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the front of the tongue against the upper teeth. They are a subtype of coronal consonants, and are typically laminal, especially is contrasting with another type of coronal consonant.

In IPA dentals are denoted, if necessary, by appending the diacritic ◌̪ (U+032A COMBINING BRIDGE BELOW) to the coronal basic symbols, but this is frequently omitted if dentality isn't contrastive. Also, the non-sibilant fricatives have separate signs: [θ], [ð].

Some basic dental consonants:

• voiceless dental stop [t̪]; voiced dental stop [d̪]
• dental nasal [n̪]
• voiceless dental fricative [θ]; voiced dental fricative [ð]
• dental approximant [ð̞] or [ɹ̪]
• dental lateral approximant [l̪]
• dental flap [ɾ̪]
• dental trill [r̪]

See also

• Labiodental consonant
• Denti-alveolar consonant
• Alveolar consonant

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