Dental consonant

Dentals are consonants articulated with either the lower or the upper teeth, or both.

The alveolar consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Symbol	Name	Example		Meaning
t̪	Voiceless dental plosive	Spanish	[t̪oɾo]	toro (="bull")
d̪	Voiced dental plosive	Spanish	[d̪ɔn̪d̪e]	dónde (="where")
n̪	Dental nasal	Spanish	[ɔn̪d̪a]	onda (="wave")
ɾ̪	Dental flap
r̪	Dental trill	Marshallese	[e.bɑ.r̪on̪]	Ebadon
θ	Voiceless dental fricative	English	[bæθ]	bath
ð	Voiced dental fricative	English	[ðæt]	that
ð̞	Voiced dental approximant	Spanish	[koð̞o]	codo (="elbow")
l̪	Dental lateral approximant

Examples:

• English th in this (SAMPA [D]), or English th in thing (SAMPA [T]) are dental fricatives.

• In French, Italian, and Spanish t, d, n, and l are all dental, whereas they're alveolar in English.

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