Voiceless alveolar plosive
t
The voiceless alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a glottalic plosive or stop. Its place of articulation is alveolar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [t]. The [t] sound in English is spelled with 't', as in tip or step.
The [t] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain [t], and some distinguish more than variety. Many Indian languages, such as Hindi, have a two-way contrast between aspirated and plain [t]. English has both aspirated and plain [t], but they are allophones.
| IPA | Description |
|---|---|
| t | plain t |
| tʰ | aspirated t |
| tʲ | palatalized t |
| tʷ | labialized t |
| t˺ | unreleased t |
| t̬ | voiced t |
| tʼ | ejective t |