Voiced alveolar plosive

d

The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a voiced glottalic plosive or stop. Its place of articulation is alveolar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [d]. The [d] sound in English is spelled with the same letter 'd', as in dig or fad.

The [d] sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain [d], and some distinguish more than variety.

Varieties of [d]


IPA Description
d plain d
dʱ or d̈ aspirated or breathy voice d
dʲ palatalized d
dʷ labialized d
d˺ unreleased d
d̥ voiceless d

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