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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:

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

• place of articulation
• List of phonetics topics

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