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Voiceless dental and alveolar stops
The
voiceless alveolar stop
is a type of
consonantal
sound used in many
spoken
languages
. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
that represents voiceless
dental
,
alveolar
, and
postalveolar
stops
is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
symbol is
t
. The
dental stop
can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, , the postalveolar with a retraction line, , and the
Extensions to the IPA
have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, .
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