Fricative consonant deaf dental consonant

The fricative consonant deaf dental consonant is a consonant sound rather not very frequent in the spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is. This symbol is that of the Greek letter Thêta, which refers to the same sound, in Greek modern at least. It is similar to the Latin letter O lower-case with median tilde.

Characteristics

Here characteristics of the fricative consonant deaf dental consonant:

Its mode of articulation is fricative, which means that it is produced by contracting the air through a narrow gauge railway at the joint, causing turbulence.
Its joint is dental consonant, which means that it is articulated with the language on the lower or higher teeth, or both.
Its phonation is deaf, which means that it is produced without the vibration of the vocal cords.
It is a oral Consonne, which means that the air does not escape that by the mouth.
It is a central Consonne, which means that it is produced by letting the air pass above the medium of the language, rather than by the sides.
Its mechanism of draft is égressif pulmonary, which means that it is articulated by pushing the air by the lungs and through the channel vocatoire, rather than by the glottis or the mouth.

In French

French, like several common languages like the German , the Japanese and the Chinese, does not have this sound. Several speakers of these languages replace it by a [S] or a {{APIb|[t̪]}}.

Interesting fact, the French-speaking of France generally pronounce this consonant like one, whereas those of the Quebec pronounce one.

Other languages

The English has this sound which is written HT (this digraph can also decide). In Former English, this sound was written with the letter edh (2D) or the thorn (þ), letters interchangeable with the [2D].

The Icelandic preserved the letter þ to write this sound. The Albanian and the Welsh write it HT , and the Same of North ŧ.

The Spanish Castilian uses the letter Z (or C in front of the I and the E ); it is believed that the evolution of the sound comes from original. Spanish of Latin America and the zones of Seseo in general does not know this sound; Z and C is marked.

The modern Greek has this consonant and the writing with its theta (θ).

See too

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