Dental fricative

The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue pressing under the teeth.^[1] There are several types (those used in English being written as th):

• Voiced dental fricative [ð] - as in the English this, [ðɪs].^[2]
• Voiceless dental fricative [θ] - as in the English thin, [θɪn].^[2]
• Dental ejective fricative [θʼ]

See also

• Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩