 Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as , , , and in some languages.Dentals are usually distinguished from sounds in which contact is made with the tongue and the gum ridge, as in English (see alveolar consonant) because of the acoustic similarity of the sounds and the fact that in the Latin script they are generally written using the same symbols (like "t", "d", "n").