Voiced alveolar plosive
d
IPA number104
Encoding
Entity (decimal)d
Unicode (hex)U+0064
X-SAMPAd
Kirshenbaumd
Sound
 

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

Features

Examples

Language Word IPA Meaning
Adyghe дахэ/daahė [daːxa] 'pretty'
Assyrian ܘܪܕܐ werda [wεrda] 'flower'
Bengali ডাব/ḍab [d̠ab] 'green coconut'
Catalan[1] susdit [sʊzˈd̻it̪] 'said before'
Czech do [do] 'into'
Dutch[2] dak [dɑk] 'roof'
English Most speakers dash [ˈdæʃ] 'dash'
Finnish sidos [ˈsido̞s] 'bond'
Greek ντροπή / dropí [dro̞ˈpi] 'shame'
Hebrew דואר/ do'ar [ˈdo̞.äʁ̞] 'mail'
Hungarian adó [ˈɒdoː] 'tax'
Kabardian дахэ/ daahė [daːxa] 'pretty'
Korean 아들 / adeul [ɐdɯl] 'son'
Kurdish Northern diran [dɪɾä:n] 'tooth'
Central ددان/ dadân [dædä:n]
Southern دیان/dîân [diːä:n]
Luxembourgish[3] brudder [ˈb̥ʀudɐ] 'brother'
Malay Standard (incl. Malaysian) dahan [dähän] 'branch'
Indonesian[4]
Kelantan-Pattani [dahɛː]
Maltese dehen [den] 'wit'
Thai ดาว/ dāw [daːw] 'star'
Welsh diafol [djavɔl] 'devil'
West Frisian doarp [ˈdwɑrp] 'village'
Yi ꄿ/dda [da˧] 'competent'
Yonaguni 与那国 / dunan [dunaŋ] 'Yonaguni'

Notes

  1. ↑ Rafel Fontanals (1999), p. 14.
  2. ↑ Gussenhoven (1992), p. 45.
  3. ↑ Gilles & Trouvain (2013), pp. 67–68.
  4. ↑ Soderberg & Olson (2008), p. 210.

References

  • Gussenhoven, Carlos (1992), "Dutch", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 22 (2): 45–47, doi:10.1017/S002510030000459X, S2CID 243772965
  • Gilles, Peter; Trouvain, Jürgen (2013), "Luxembourgish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43 (1): 67–74, doi:10.1017/S0025100312000278
  • Soderberg, Craig D.; Olson, Kenneth S. (2008), "Indonesian", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 38 (2): 209–213, doi:10.1017/s0025100308003320
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