The voiced dental stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨d̪⟩. This is the letter for the voiced alveolar stop with the "bridge below" diacritic meaning dental.
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