The voiced dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is d̪, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d_d. This is the symbol for the voiced alveolar plosive with the "bridge below" diacritic meaning dental.

Features

Features of the voiced dental plosive:

• Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
• Its place of articulation is dental which means it is articulated with the tongue on either the lower or the upper teeth, or both.
• Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
• It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
• It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the center of the tongue, rather than the sides.
• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

True dental consonants are relatively uncommon. In the Romance languages, /d/ is often called dental. However, the rearmost contact (which is what gives a consonant its distinctive sound) is actually alveolar, or perhaps denti-alveolar; the fact that the front of the tongue touches the teeth may be more visible, but is unimportant acoustically. The difference between the /d/ sounds of the Romance languages and English is not so much where the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth as which part of the tongue makes the contact. In English, it is the tip of the tongue (such sounds are termed apical), whereas in a number of Romance languages, it is the flat of the tongue just above the tip (such sounds are called laminal).

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Arabic	Standard	دولة	[ˈd̪awlɐ]	'state'	See Arabic phonology
Dinka		dhek		'distinct'
Catalan		ull de bou		'round window'	See Catalan phonology
Croatian		disati		'to breathe'
English	Irish	that		'that'	Some dialects. See English phonology
Georgian		კუდი	[ˈkud̪i]	'tail'
Hindi		दाल		'lentils'	Hindi contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms. See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Italian		dare		'to give'	See Italian phonology
Pashto		ﺪﻮﻩ		'two'
Polish		dom		'home'	See Polish phonology
Portuguese		dar		'to give'	See Portuguese phonology
Russian		дышать		'to breathe'	Contrasts with a palatalized voiced alveolar plosive. See Russian phonology
Serbian		дисати		'to breathe'
Spanish		hundido	[ũn̪ˈd̪̪iðo̞]	'sunken'	See Spanish phonology
Turkish		dal	[d̪äl]	'finger'	See Turkish phonology

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See also

• List of phonetics topics