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Alveolar nasal

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IPA – number 116
IPA – text n
IPA – image Image:Xsampa-n.png
Entity n
X-SAMPA n
Kirshenbaum n
Sound sample 

The alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is n, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n.

[edit] Features

Features of the alveolar nasal:

[edit] Occurrence

  • Arabic: قرن [qærn], "century"
  • English: nice [naɪs]
  • French: conexion [kɔnɛksjɔ̃], "connection"
  • Georgian: კა[ˈkani], "skin"
  • German: lanze [lantsə], "lance"
  • Greek: στενός [ste̞ˈno̞s], "narrow"
  • Polish: ziarno [ˈʑarnɔ], "seed"
  • Russian: ханжой [xʌnˈʐoj], "hypocrite" (instr.)
  • Spanish: nada [ˈn̪aða], "nothing"

[edit] See also

  Consonants (List, table) See also: IPA, Vowels  
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal Non-pulmonics and other symbols
Nasals m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ
Plosives p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Implo­­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ
Fricatives ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Ejec­­tives 
Approximants β̞ ʋ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Other laterals  ɺ ɫ
Trills ʙ r ʀ Co-articulated approximants  ʍ w ɥ
Flaps & Taps ѵ̟ ѵ ɾ ɽ Co-articulated fricatives  ɕ ʑ ɧ
Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ Affricates  ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  k͡p ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.
cs:Alveolární nazála

de:Stimmhafter alveolarer Nasal fr:Consonne occlusive nasale alvéolaire voisée ja:歯茎鼻音 ko:치조 비음 pt:Nasal alveolar ro:Consoană nazală alveolară sv:Alveolar nasal zh:齒齦鼻音

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