Voiced alveolar plosive
d
The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a voiced glottalic plosive or stop. Its place of articulation is alveolar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [d]. The [d] sound in English is spelled with the same letter 'd', as in dig or fad.
The [d] sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain [d], and some distinguish more than variety.
| IPA | Description |
|---|---|
| d | plain d |
| dʱ or d̈ | aspirated or breathy voice d |
| dʲ | palatalized d |
| dʷ | labialized d |
| d˺ | unreleased d |
| d̥ | voiceless d |