Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives
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Voiceless alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is Template:Angbr IPA. The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, Template:Angbr IPA and the postalveolar with a retraction line, Template:Angbr IPA, and the extIPA has a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, Template:Angbr IPA.
The Template:IPA sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically.Template:Sfnp Most languages have at least a plain Template:IPA, and some distinguish more than one variety. Some languages without a Template:IPA are colloquial Samoan (which also lacks an Template:IPA), Abau, and Nǁng of South Africa.Template:Citation needed
There are only a few languages which distinguish dental and alveolar stops, Kota, Toda, Venda and many Australian Aboriginal languages being a few of them; certain varieties of Hiberno-English also distinguish them (with Template:IPA being the local realisation of the Standard English phoneme Template:IPA, represented by ⟨th⟩).
Features
File:Voiceless dental plosive.svg
File:Voiceless alveolar plosive.svg
Here are the features of voiceless alveolar stops:
- There are three specific variants of Template:IPA:
- Dental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper teeth, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Denti-alveolar, which means it is articulated with the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, and the tip of the tongue behind upper teeth.
- Alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
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Varieties
| IPA | Description |
|---|---|
| Template:IPA | plain t |
| Template:IPA | dental t |
| Template:IPA | postalveolar t |
| Template:IPA | aspirated t |
| Template:IPA | palatalized t |
| Template:IPA | labialized t |
| Template:IPA | t with no audible release |
| Template:IPA | voiced t |
| Template:IPA | tense t |
| Template:IPA | ejective t |
| Template:IPA | pharyngealized t |
Occurrence
Dental
Alveolar
Postalveolar
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali<ref name="mazumdar">Template:Harvcoltxt</ref> | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'taka' | Apical postalveolar;<ref name="mazumdar"/> contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Bengali phonology |
| Hindustani<ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref><ref name="tiwari">Template:Harvcoltxt</ref> | Template:Lang/ Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'hat' | Apical postalveolar |
| Nepali | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'team' | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Nepali phonology |
| Odia | Template:Lang / Template:Transliteration | Template:IPA | 'crepe jasmine' | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. |
| Yele | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'tongue' | Contrasts Template:IPA. |
Variable
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | Modern Standard | Template:Lang/Template:Transliteration | Template:IPA | 'fig' | Laminal denti-alveolar or alveolar, depending on the speaker's native dialect. See Arabic phonology |
| English | Broad South AfricanTemplate:Sfnp | talk | Template:IPA | 'talk' | Laminal denti-alveolar for some speakers, alveolar for other speakers.Template:SfnpTemplate:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp |
| ScottishTemplate:Sfnp | Template:IPA | ||||
| WelshTemplate:Sfnp | Template:IPA | ||||
| German | StandardTemplate:Sfnp | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'daughter' | Varies between laminal denti-alveolar, laminal alveolar and apical alveolar.Template:Sfnp See Standard German phonology |
| GreekTemplate:Sfnp | Template:Lang Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'three' | Varies between dental, laminal denti-alveolar and alveolar, depending on the environment.Template:Sfnp See Modern Greek phonology | |
| Malay | Template:Lang/Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'catch' | More commonly dental. Often unreleased in syllable codas. See Malay phonology | |
| Norwegian | Urban EastTemplate:Sfnp | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'dance' | Varies between laminal denti-alveolar and laminal alveolar. It is usually transcribed Template:IPA. It may be partially voiced Template:IPAblink, and it contrasts with voiceless aspirated form, which is usually transcribed Template:IPA.Template:Sfnp See Norwegian phonology |
| Persian<ref name="mah">Template:Harvcoltxt</ref> | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'berry' | Varies between laminal denti-alveolar and apical alveolar.<ref name="mah"/> See Persian phonology | |
| SlovakTemplate:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp | Template:Lang | Template:IPA | 'that' | Varies between laminal denti-alveolar and laminal alveolar.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp See Slovak phonology | |
See also
Notes
References
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