Dentolabial consonant

Places of
articulation

 • Labial
Bilabial
Labial-velar
Labial-alveolar
Labiodental
Dentolabial

 • Bidental

 • Coronal
Linguolabial
Interdental
Dental
Denti-alveolar
Alveolar
Apical
Laminal
Subapical
Postalveolar
Alveolo-palatal
Retroflex

 • Dorsal
Palatal
Labial-palatal
Velar
Uvular
Uvular-epiglottal

 • Radical
Pharyngeal
Epiglotto-pharyngeal
Epiglottal

 • Glottal

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Dentolabial consonants are consonants articulated with the lower teeth against the upper lip, the reverse of labiodental consonants. They are rare cross-linguistically, but one allophone of Swedish has been described as a velarized dentolabial fricative.

The diacritic for dentolabial consonants in the Extended IPA is a superscript bridge, , by analogy with the subscript bridge used for labiodentals. For example, the voiced dentolabial fricative is transcribed as , and the dentolabial nasal as .


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