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Dental consonant
Dentals are consonants articulated with both the lower and the upper teeth.
Examples:
- English th in this (SAMPA [D]), or English th in thing (SAMPA [T]) are dental fricatives.
- In French, Italian, and Spanish t, d, n, and l are all dental, whereas they're alveolar in English.
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