Voiced dental and alveolar plosives

Voiced alveolar and dental plosives are a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the "d" sound in "adore".
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar plosives is ; the diacritic in can be used to distinguish the dental.
There are only a few languages that distinguish dental and alveolar stops, among them Kota [language (India)|Kota], Toda, Venda and some Irish dialects.

Features

Features of a voiced alveolar stop:

There are three specific variants of :
* Dental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper teeth, termed respectively apical and laminal.
* Denti-alveolar, which means it is articulated with the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, and the tip of the tongue behind upper teeth.
* Alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.

To distinguish from the voiced dental and alveolar plosives, a voiced postalveolar plosive can be transcribed as. A more explicit transcription, using a combination of extIPA and obsolete diacritics, can also be used.