Dental consonant
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| Places of articulation |
| Labial consonant |
| Bilabial consonant |
| Labiodental consonant |
| Linguolabial consonant |
| Coronal consonant |
| Interdental consonant |
| Dental consonant |
| Retroflex consonant |
| Alveolar consonant |
| Postalveolar consonant |
| Alveolo-palatal consonant |
| Dorsal consonant |
| Palatal consonant |
| Labial-palatal consonant |
| Velar consonant |
| Labial-velar consonant |
| Uvular consonant |
| Pharyngeal consonant |
| Epiglottal consonant |
| Glottal consonant |
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Dentals are consonants articulated with either the lower or the upper teeth, or both. In French, Italian, and Spanish t, d, n, and l are all dental, whereas they are alveolar in English.
The dental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| dental nasal | Spanish | onda | [ɔn̪d̪a] | wave | |
| voiceless dental plosive | Spanish | toro | [t̪oɾo] | bull | |
| voiced dental plosive | Spanish | donde | [d̪ɔn̪d̪e] | where | |
| voiceless dental fricative | English | thing | [θiŋ] | thing | |
| voiced dental fricative | English | this | [ðɪs] | this | |
| voiced dental approximant | Spanish | codo | [koð̞o] | elbow | |
| dental lateral approximant | Kaititj | l̪inp | [l̪inp] | armpit | |
| dental flap | |||||
| dental trill | Marshallese | Ebadon | [e.bɑ.r̪on̪] | Ebadon | |
| dental ejective | |||||
| voiced dental implosive | |||||
| dental click | Xhosa | ukúkǀola | [ukukǀola] | to grind fine | |
See also
Categories: Pages containing IPA | Consonants