Dental fricative

The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue pressing under the teeth. There are several types (those used in English being written as th):

• Voiced dental fricative - as in the English this, .
• Voiceless dental fricative - as in the English thin, .
• Dental ejective fricative

See also

• Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩

References