Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives

Voiceless alveolar and dental plosives are a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the "t" sound in "stick".
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is. The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, and the postalveolar with a retraction line,, and the extIPA has a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation,.
The sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain, and some distinguish more than one variety. Some languages without a are colloquial Samoan, Abau, and Nǁng of South Africa.
There are only a few languages which distinguish dental and alveolar stops, including Kota [language (India)|Kota], Toda, Venda and many Australian Aboriginal languages; certain varieties of Hiberno-English also distinguish them.

Features

Here are the features of voiceless alveolar stops:

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.

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Acehnese	teubèë		'sugarcane'	See Acehnese phonology
Bengali	Bengali alphabet		'taka'	Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Bengali phonology
Hindustani	Devanagari/ Urdu alphabet		'hat'	Apical postalveolar
Nepali	Devanāgarī		'team'	Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Nepali phonology
Odia	Odia script /		'crepe jasmine'	Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms.
Yele	Yele language#Orthography		'tongue'	Contrasts.