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Voiceless dental fricative [θ]
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The voiceless dental fricative [θ] is a consonant phone.
Features[edit | edit source]
- Its manner of articulation is a fricative, which means that the airflow is partially obstructed, creating audible friction.
- Its place of articulation is dental, which means that the sound is produced by the tongue making contact with the upper teeth.
- It’s a voiceless consonant, which means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a dental fricative, and has a voiced counterpart, the voiced dental fricative [ð].
Representation[edit | edit source]
It has the IPA symbol lowercase theta, i.e. ⟨θ⟩, and the IPA number 130.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the Voiceless TH phoneme /θ/.
