dental fricative

{{Short description|Consonantal sound}}

The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue pressing under the teeth.{{Cite journal|last=Zhao|first=Sherry Y.|date=18 October 2010|title=Stop-like modification of the dental fricative /ð/: An acoustic analysis|journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|volume=128|issue=4|pages=2009–2020|pmc=2981115|pmid=20968372|doi=10.1121/1.3478856}} There are several types (those used in English being written as th):

• Voiced dental fricative {{IPA|[ð]}} - as in the English this, {{IPA|[ðɪs]}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.learning-english-online.net/pronunciation/the-english-th/|title=The English "th"|website=Learn EN - Archive|language=en|access-date=2019-04-10}}
• Voiceless dental fricative {{IPA|[θ]}} - as in the English thin, {{IPA|[θɪn]}}.
• Dental ejective fricative {{IPA|[θʼ]}}