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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

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.

See also

PhoneticsPhonetics is the study of speech sounds ( voice). It is concerned with the actual nature of the sounds and their production, as opposed to phonology, which operates at the level of sound systems and linguistic units called phonemes. Discussions of meaning

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