Voiced dental and alveolar plosives

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. ==Occurrence==

Dental or denti-alveolar } || 'door' ||colspan="3"| Alveolar Postalveolar To distinguish from the voiced dental and alveolar plosives, a voiced postalveolar plosive can be transcribed as . A more explicit (though convoluted) transcription , using a combination of extIPA and obsolete diacritics, can also be used. Variable ==See also==