A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /t/, /d/, /n/, and /l/ in some languages. Dentals are primarily distinguished from sounds in which contact is made with the tongue and the gum ridge, as in English (see Alveolar consonant), due to the acoustic similarity of the sounds and the fact that in the Roman alphabet they are generally written using the same symbols (t, d, n, and so on).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic for dental consonant is ⟨  ̪  ⟩ (U+032A  ̪ combining bridge below).

Contents

• 1 Dentals cross-linguistically
• 2 Dental consonants in the world's languages
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 Bibliography

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