Voiceless Alveolar Stop - Occurrence

Occurrence

Present in nearly every language, the voiceless unaspirated alveolar stop is one of the most common phones cross-linguistically.

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe тфы 'five'
Arabic Egyptian توكة tōka 'barrette' See Egyptian Arabic phonology
Chinese Cantonese daan6 'however' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Cantonese phonology
Mandarin dà 'big' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Mandarin phonology
Yi da 'place' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms
Czech toto 'this' See Czech phonology
Dutch taal 'language' See Dutch phonology
English tick 'tick' See English phonology
Finnish parta 'beard' Allophone of the voiceless dental stop. See Finnish phonology
French tordu 'crooked' See French phonology
German Tochter 'daughter' See German phonology
Greek τρία tria 'three' See Modern Greek phonology
Hebrew תמונה 'image' see Modern Hebrew phonology
Hungarian tutaj 'raft' See Hungarian phonology
Japanese 特別 tokubetsu 'special' See Japanese phonology
Kabardian тхуы 'five'
Korean teok 'jaw' See Korean phonology
Macedonian ти 'you' See Macedonian phonology
Malay tahun 'year' S
Maltese tassew 'true'
Norwegian tann 'tooth' See Norwegian phonology
Nunggubuyu 'greedy'
Slovak to 'that'
Thai ta 'eye'
Vietnamese ti 'flaw,' See Vietnamese phonology
West Frisian tosk 'tooth'

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