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dental consonant
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consonant that is articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth
A dental consonant is a speech sound made by placing your tongue against your upper teeth. These consonants are important in languages around the world because they help distinguish different words and sounds that people use to communicate.
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Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #810;
- Unicode hex
- U+032A
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- coronal consonant
- Followed by
- alveolar consonant
- Image
- Dental.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Dental consonants
- uses
- tooth
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Encyclopedic overview
A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /θ/, /ð/. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge. Dental consonants share acoustic similarity and in the Latin script are generally written with consistent symbols (e.g. t, d, n).
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the diacritic for dental consonant is U+032A ◌̪ COMBINING BRIDGE BELOW. When there is no room under the letter, it may be placed above, using the character U+0346 ◌͆ COMBINING BRIDGE ABOVE, such as in /p͆/. However, this has a different meaning in the Extensions to the IPA, where it represents dentolabials.
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