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Dental Consonant

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:
rowspan="2" style="border:1px solid black; background: gray; color: white"| IPA rowspan="2" style="border:1px solid black; background: gray; color: white"| Description style="border:1px solid black; background: gray; color: white" colspan="4"| Example
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style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|voiceless dental plosive style="border:1px solid black"|Spanish style="border:1px solid black"|toro style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">oɾo style="border:1px solid black"|bull
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|voiced dental plosive style="border:1px solid black"|Spanish style="border:1px solid black"|donde style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">ɔn̪e style="border:1px solid black"|where
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|Dental nasal style="border:1px solid black"|Spanish style="border:1px solid black"|onda style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">d̪a style="border:1px solid black"|wave
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|dental flap style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|dental trill style="border:1px solid black"|Marshallese style="border:1px solid black"|Ebadon style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">on̪ style="border:1px solid black"|Ebadon
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|voiceless dental fricative style="border:1px solid black"|English style="border:1px solid black"|thing style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">θ style="border:1px solid black"|thing
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|voiced dental fricative style="border:1px solid black"|English style="border:1px solid black"|this style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">ðɪs style="border:1px solid black"|this
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|voiced dental approximant style="border:1px solid black"|Spanish style="border:1px solid black"|codo style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">ð̞o style="border:1px solid black"|elbow
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|dental lateral approximant style="border:1px solid black"|Kaititj style="border:1px solid black"|inp style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">inp style="border:1px solid black"|armpit
style="border:1px solid black"| style="border:1px solid black"|dental click style="border:1px solid black"|Xhosa style="border:1px solid black"|ukkǀola style="border:1px solid black"|style="color:#700000">ǀola style="border:1px solid black"|to grind fine

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