Topic summary
Alveolar nasal
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Voiced dental and alveolar nasals.
A voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the ⟨n⟩ sound in nice. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolarnasals is ⟨n⟩.