Voiceless alveolar plosive

Voiceless alveolar plosive
Voiceless alveolar plosive
t
IPA number	103
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	t
Unicode (hex)	U+0074
X-SAMPA	t
Kirshenbaum	t
Sound
	view; talk; edit;

The voiceless alveolar stop is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨t⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨t⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "t" in tear and tool.

Features

The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. This means that this sound is produced by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
The phonation is voiceless. This means that this sound is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
The place of articulation (where the sound is produced) is alveolar. This means that this sound is produced with the tip of the tongue (apical) or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge (laminal).
The manner of articulation (how the sound is produced) is stop, or plosive. This means that this sound is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. (The term plosive contrasts with nasal stops, where the blocked airflow is redirected through the nose.)

Examples

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
Adyghe		тфы	[tfə] (help·info)	'five'
Arabic	Egyptian	توكة tōka	[ˈtoːkæ]	'barrette'
Assyrian		ܒܝܬܐ bèta	[beːta]	'house'
Bengali		টাকা	[t̠aka]	'Taka'
Czech		toto	[ˈtoto]	'this'
Danish	Standard^[1]	dåse	[ˈtɔ̽ːsə]	'can' (n.)
Dutch^[2]		taal	[taːɫ]	'language'
English	Most speakers	tick	[tʰɪk]	'tick'
English	New York^[3]	tick	[tʰɪk]	'tick'
Finnish		parta	[ˈpɑrtɑ]	'beard'
Hebrew		תמונה	[tmuˈna]	'image'
Hungarian^[4]		tutaj	[ˈtutɒj]	'raft'
Kabardian		тхуы	[txʷə] (help·info)	'five'
Khmer		តែ / tê	[tae]	'tea'
Korean		대숲 / daesup	[tɛsup̚]	'bamboo forest'
Kurdish	Northern	tu	[tʰʊ]	'you'
	Central	تەوێڵ	[tʰəweːɫ]	'forehead'
	Southern	تێوڵ	[tʰeːwɨɫ]	'forehead'
Luxembourgish^[5]		dënn	[tən]	'thin'
Maltese		tassew	[tasˈsew]	'true'
Mapudungun^[6]		füta	[ˈfɘtɜ]	'elderly'
Nunggubuyu^[7]		darawa	[taɾawa]	'greedy'
Nuosu^[which?]		ꄉ da	[ta˧]
Portuguese^[8]	Some dialects	troço	[ˈtɾɔsu]	'thing' (pejorative)
Thai		ตา ta	[taː˧]	'eye'
Vietnamese		ti	[ti]	'flaw'
West Frisian		tosk	[ˈtosk]	'tooth'

Notes

References

Basbøll, Hans (2005), The Phonology of Danish, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0-203-97876-5
Gussenhoven, Carlos (1992), "Dutch", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 22 (2): 45–47, doi:10.1017/S002510030000459X, S2CID 243772965
Szende, Tamás (1994), "Illustrations of the IPA: Hungarian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 24 (2): 91–94, doi:10.1017/S0025100300005090, S2CID 242632087
Gilles, Peter; Trouvain, Jürgen (2013), "Luxembourgish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278
Sadowsky, Scott; Painequeo, Héctor; Salamanca, Gastón; Avelino, Heriberto (2013), "Mapudungun", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 87–96, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000369
Ladefoged, Peter (2005), Vowels and Consonants (Second ed.), Blackwell

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Voiceless alveolar plosive

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