Voiced alveolar plosive

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.

Voiced alveolar plosive
d
IPA number	104
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	d
Unicode (hex)	U+0064
X-SAMPA	d

Features

• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. It means that we produce this sound by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
• Its phonation is voiced. It means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
• We produce it at alveolar. It means that we produce this sound with the tip of the tongue(apical) or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge (laminal).
• Its behavior is stop, or plosive. It means that we produce this sound 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		дахэcode: kbd is deprecated /daahė	[daːxa]	'pretty'
Assyrian		ܘܪܕܐ [[[Syriac alphabet|werda]]] Error: {{Lang}}: Latn text/non-Latn script subtag mismatch (help)	[wεrda]	'flower'
Bengali		ডাব/ḍab	[d̠ab]	'green coconut'
Catalan		susditcode: ca is deprecated	[sʊzˈd̻it̪]	'said before'
Czech		docode: cs is deprecated	[do]	'into'
Dutch		dakcode: nl is deprecated	[dɑk]	'roof'
English	Most speakers	dash	[ˈdæʃ]	'dash'
Finnish		sidoscode: fi is deprecated	[ˈsido̞s]	'bond'
Greek		ντροπή / dropícode: el is deprecated	[dro̞ˈpi]	'shame'
Hebrew		דוארcode: he is deprecated / do'ar	[ˈdo̞.äʁ̞]	'mail'
Hungarian		adócode: hu is deprecated	[ˈɒdoː]	'tax'
Kabardian		дахэcode: kbd is deprecated / daahė	[daːxa]	'pretty'
Korean		아들code: ko is deprecated / adeul	[ɐdɯl]	'son'
Kurdish	Northern	dirancode: ku is deprecated	[dɪɾä:n]	'tooth'
	Central	ددانcode: ku is deprecated / dadân	[dædä:n]
	Southern	دیانcode: ku is deprecated /dîân	[diːä:n]
Luxembourgish		bruddercode: lb is deprecated	[ˈb̥ʀudɐ]	'brother'
Malay	Standard (incl. Malaysian)	dahancode: ms is deprecated	[dähän]	'branch'
	Indonesian
	Kelantan-Pattani		[dahɛː]
Maltese		dehencode: no is deprecated	[den]	'wit'
Thai		ดาวcode: th is deprecated / dāw	[daːw]	'star'
Welsh		diafol	[djavɔl]	'devil'
West Frisian		doarpcode: fy is deprecated	[ˈdwɑrp]	'village'
Yi		ꄿcode: ii is deprecated /ddacode: ii is deprecated	[da˧]	'competent'
Yonaguni		与那国code: yoi is deprecated / dunan	[dunaŋ]	'Yonaguni'

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