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  2. Alveolar consonant - Wikipedia

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    If it is necessary to specify a consonant as alveolar, a diacritic from the Extended IPA may be used: [s͇, t͇, n͇, l͇], etc., though that could also mean extra-retracted. [3] The letters s, t, n, l are frequently called 'alveolar', and the language examples below are all alveolar sounds.

  3. Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants

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    In such cases, voicing typically starts about halfway through the hold of the consonant. No language is known to contrast such a sound with a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ]. In a number of languages, including most varieties of English, the phoneme /l/ becomes velarized ("dark l") in certain contexts.

  4. List of consonants - Wikipedia

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    1.3.2 Alveolar consonants. ... This is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International ... These are not found in any language, but ...

  5. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in vocal languages. It is the sound in English words such as sea and pass, and is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with s . It has a characteristic high-pitched, highly perceptible hissing sound.

  6. Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps - Wikipedia

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    The sound is often analyzed and thus interpreted by non-native English-speakers as an 'R-sound' in many foreign languages. In languages for which the segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either an alveolar stop (, , or both) or a rhotic consonant (like the alveolar trill or the alveolar approximant).

  7. Voiced alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiced alveolar sibilant is common across European languages, but is relatively uncommon cross-linguistically compared to the voiceless variant. Only about 28% of the world's languages contain a voiced dental or alveolar sibilant. Moreover, 85% of the languages with some form of [z] are languages of Europe, Africa, or Western Asia.

  8. Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals - Wikipedia

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    An example of a language without [n] and [ŋ] is Edo). There are some languages (e.g. Rotokas) that lack both [m] and [n]. True dental consonants are relatively uncommon. In the Romance, Dravidian, and Australian languages, n is often called "dental" in the literature.

  9. Palato-alveolar consonant - Wikipedia

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    Examples of words with these sounds in English are shin [ʃ], chin [tʃ], gin [dʒ] and vision [ʒ] (in the middle of the word). Like most other coronal consonants, palato-alveolar consonants can be articulated either with the tip or blade of the tongue, and are correspondingly called apical or laminal. Speakers of English use both variants ...