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Dental

In linguistics, a dental consonant or dental is a consonant that is articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /t/ , /d/ , /n/ , and /l/ in some languages. Dentals are primarily distinguished from sounds in which contact is made with the tongue and the gum ridge, as in English ( see Alveolar consonant), due to the acoustic similarity of the sounds and the fact that in the Roman alphabet they are generally written using the same symbols ( t , d , n , and so on).