Voiced dental and alveolar plosives

Voiced alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in many spokenlanguages. 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 postalveolarplosives is ⟨d⟩; the diacritic in ⟨d̪⟩ can be used to distinguish the dental.

There are only a few languages that distinguish dental and alveolar stops (or often more precisely laminal and apical alveolar stops), among them Kota, Toda, Venda and some Irish dialects.