Voiceless dental and alveolar stops


The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar stops are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar stops is, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t. The dental stop can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, and the postalveolar with a retraction line,, and the Extensions to the IPA have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation,.
The sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically; the most common consonant phonemes of the world's languages are, and. Most languages have at least a plain, and some distinguish more than one variety. Some languages without a are Hawaiian, colloquial Samoan, Abau, and Nǁng of South Africa.

Features

Here are features of the voiceless alveolar stop:

Occurrence

Dental or denti-alveolar

Alveolar

Variable