Dental Consonants in The World's Languages
Dental/denti-alveolar consonants as transcribed by the International Phonetic Alphabet include:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| dental nasal | Russian | банк | 'bank' | ||
| voiceless dental stop | Finnish | tutti | 'pacifier' | ||
| voiced dental stop | Arabic | دين | 'religion' | ||
| s̪ | voiceless dental sibilant fricative | Polish | kosa | 'scythe' | |
| z̪ | voiced dental sibilant fricative | Polish | koza | 'goat' | |
| voiceless dental nonsibilant fricative (also often called "interdental") |
English | thing | 'thing' | ||
| voiced dental nonsibilant fricative (also often called "interdental") |
English | this | 'this' | ||
| dental approximant | Spanish | codo | 'elbow' | ||
| dental lateral approximant | Spanish | alto | 'tall' | ||
| dental flap | Spanish | harto | 'fed up' | ||
| dental trill | Hungarian | ró | 'to carve' | ||
| dental ejective | |||||
| voiced dental implosive | |||||
| dental click release | Xhosa | ukúcola | 'to grind fine' | ||
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