Occurrence
Present in nearly every language, the voiceless unaspirated alveolar stop is one of the most common phones cross-linguistically.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | тфы | 'five' | |||
| Arabic | Egyptian | توكة tōka | 'barrette' | See Egyptian Arabic phonology | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 但 daan6 | 'however' | Contrasts with aspirated form. See Cantonese phonology | |
| Mandarin | 大 dà | 'big' | Contrasts with aspirated form. See Mandarin phonology | ||
| Yi | ꄉ da | 'place' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms | ||
| Czech | toto | 'this' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Dutch | taal | 'language' | See Dutch phonology | ||
| English | tick | 'tick' | See English phonology | ||
| Finnish | parta | 'beard' | Allophone of the voiceless dental stop. See Finnish phonology | ||
| French | tordu | 'crooked' | See French phonology | ||
| German | Tochter | 'daughter' | See German phonology | ||
| Greek | τρία tria | 'three' | See Modern Greek phonology | ||
| Hebrew | תמונה | 'image' | see Modern Hebrew phonology | ||
| Hungarian | tutaj | 'raft' | See Hungarian phonology | ||
| Japanese | 特別 tokubetsu | 'special' | See Japanese phonology | ||
| Kabardian | тхуы | 'five' | |||
| Korean | 턱 teok | 'jaw' | See Korean phonology | ||
| Macedonian | ти | 'you' | See Macedonian phonology | ||
| Malay | tahun | 'year' | S | ||
| Maltese | tassew | 'true' | |||
| Norwegian | tann | 'tooth' | See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Nunggubuyu | 'greedy' | ||||
| Slovak | to | 'that' | |||
| Thai | ตา ta | 'eye' | |||
| Vietnamese | ti | 'flaw,' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| West Frisian | tosk | 'tooth' | |||
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