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Voiceless dental fricative

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Voiceless dental fricative
θしーた
IPA Number130
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)θ
Unicode (hex)U+03B8
X-SAMPAT
Braille⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)⠹ (braille pattern dots-1456)

The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to most English speakers as the 'th' in think. Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential ones. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨θしーた⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is T. The IPA symbol is the lowercase Greek letter theta, which is used for this sound in post-classical Greek, and the sound is thus often referred to as "theta".

The dental non-sibilant fricatives are often called "interdental" because they are often produced with the tongue between the upper and lower teeth, and not just against the back of the upper or lower teeth, as they are with other dental consonants.

This sound and its voiced counterpart are rare phonemes, occurring in 4% of languages in a phonological analysis of 2,155 languages.[1] Among the more than 60 languages with over 10 million speakers, only English, northern varieties of the Berber languages of North Africa, Standard Peninsular Spanish, various dialects of Arabic, Swahili (in words derived from Arabic), and Greek have the voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative.[citation needed] Speakers of languages and dialects without the sound sometimes have difficulty producing or distinguishing it from similar sounds, especially if they have had no chance to acquire it in childhood, and typically replace it with a voiceless alveolar fricative (/s/) (as in Indonesian), voiceless dental stop (/t/), or a voiceless labiodental fricative (/f/); known respectively as th-alveolarization, th-stopping,[2] and th-fronting.[3]

The sound is known to have disappeared from a number of languages, e.g. from most of the Germanic languages or dialects, where it is retained only in Scots, English, and Icelandic, but it is alveolar in the last of these.[4][5] Among non-Germanic Indo-European languages as a whole, the sound was also once much more widespread, but is today preserved in a few languages including the Brythonic languages, Peninsular Spanish, Galician, Venetian, Tuscan, Albanian, some Occitan dialects and Greek. It has likewise disappeared from many modern vernacular varieties of Arabic, like Egyptian Arabic. Classical Arabic (used in reciting the Quran) still retains the sound.

Features

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Features of the voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative:

  • Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence. It does not have the grooved tongue and directed airflow, or the high frequencies, of a sibilant.
  • Its place of articulation is dental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper teeth, termed respectively apical and laminal. Note that most stops and liquids described as dental are actually denti-alveolar.
  • Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
  • It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
  • It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
  • Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Albanian thotë [θしーたɔtə] 'says'
Arabic Modern Standard[6] ثَوْب [θしーたawb]ⓘ 'a dress' Represented by ⟨ث⟩. See Arabic phonology.
Eastern Libya ثِلاثة [θしーたɪˈlæːθしーたæ] 'three'
Sanaa, Yemen[7][full citation needed] يِثَمَّن [jɪˈθしーたæmːæn] 'it is priced'
Iraq ثمانْية [θしーた(ɪ)ˈmæːnjæ] 'eight'
Khuzestan, Iran[8] الثانْية [ɪθしーたˈθしーたæːnjæ] 'the second one'
Aragonese arbuzo [arˈbuθしーたo] 'bush'
Arapaho yoo3on [jɔːθしーたɔn] 'five'
Arpitan Genevan [fr] and Savoyard marchiê [maʁθしーた'ia] 'market'
Fribourgeois [fr] èthêla [e'θしーたɛːla] 'star'
Valaisan [fr] cllâf [θしーたo] 'key' Limited to l'Étivaz [fr] (VD), Bourg-Saint-Pierre (VS), and a few other villages.
Assyrian ܒܝܬܐ bèṭa [beːθしーたa] 'house' Mostly used in the Western, Barwari, Tel Keppe, Batnaya and Alqosh dialects; realized as [t] in other varieties.
Asturian zusmiu [ˈθしーたusmju] 'juice'
Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬚𐬭𐬀‎ xšaθしーたra [xʃaθしーたra] 'kingdom' Ancient dead sacred language.
Bashkir дуҫ / duθしーた [duθしーた]ⓘ 'friend'
Berber Ṯmaziɣṯ [θしーたmæzɪɣθしーた] 'Berber (language)'(noun) This pronunciation is common in northern Morocco, central Morocco, and northern Algeria.
Berta [θしーたɪ́ŋɑ̀] 'to eat'
Burmese[9] သုံး / thon: [θしーたòʊ̯̃] 'three' Commonly realized as an affricate [t̪͡θしーた].[10]
Cornish eth [ɛθしーた] 'eight'
Emiliano-Romagnol[11] fâza [ˈfaːθしーたɐ] 'face'
English Most dialects thin [θしーたɪn]ⓘ 'thin' See English phonology
Galician Most dialects[12] cero [ˈθしーたɛɾo] 'zero' Merges with /s/ into [s] in Western dialects.[12] See Galician phonology
Greek θしーたάλασσα [ˈθしーたalasa] 'sea' See Modern Greek phonology
Gweno [riθしーたo] 'eye'
Gwich’in thał [θしーたaɬ] 'pants'
Halkomelem θしーたqet [θしーたqet] 'tree'
Hän nihthän [nihθしーたɑn] 'I want'
Harsusi [θしーたəroː] 'two'
Hebrew Iraqi עברית [ʕibˈriːθしーた] 'Hebrew' (language) See Modern Hebrew phonology
Yemenite [ʕivˈriːθしーた]
Hlai Basadung [θしーたsio] 'one'
Italian Tuscan[13] i capitani [iˌhäɸiˈθしーたäːni] 'the captains' Intervocalic allophone of /t/.[13] See Italian phonology and Tuscan gorgia
Kabyle ṯafaṯ [θしーたafaθしーた] 'light'(noun)
Karen Sgaw သၢ [θしーたə˧] 'three'
Karuk yiθしーたa [jiθしーたa] 'one'
Kickapoo neθしーたwi [nɛθしーたwi] 'three'
Kwama [mɑ̄ˈθしーたíl] 'to laugh'
Leonese ceru [θしーたeɾu] 'zero'
Lorediakarkar [θしーたar] 'four'
Malay Selasa [θしーたəlaθしーたa] 'Tuesday' Mostly occurs in Arabic loanwords originally containing this sound, but the writing is not distinguished from the Arabic loanwords with the [s] sound and this sound must be learned separately by the speakers. See Malay phonology.
Massa [faθしーた] 'five'
Occitan Gascon macipon [maθしーたiˈpu] '(male) child' Limited the sub-dialects of the region of Castillonais, in the Ariège department.
Vivaro-Alpine chin [θしーたĩ] 'dog' Limited to Vénosc, in the Isère department.
Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹 xšāyaθしーたiya [xʃaːjaθしーたija] 'king' This sound does not occur in modern Persian.
Saanich TÁŦES [teθしーたʔəs] 'eight'
Sardinian Nuorese petha [pɛθしーたa] 'meat'
Shark Bay [θしーたar] 'four'
Shawnee nthwi [nθしーたwɪ] 'three'
Sioux Nakoda ktusa [ktũˈθしーたa] 'four'
Spanish European[14] cazar [käˈθしーた̪͆äɾ] 'to hunt' Interdental. See Spanish phonology and Seseo. This sound is not contrastive in the Americas, southern Andalusia or the Canary Islands.
Castilian pared [paˈɾeθしーた] 'wall' Word-final, especially in Madrid.[15][16] Corresponds to [ð] in standard Spanish.
Swahili thamini [θしーたɑˈmini] 'value' Mostly occurs in Arabic loanwords originally containing this sound.
Tanacross thiit [θしーたiːtʰ] 'embers'
Toda உஇனபஒத [wɨnboθしーた] 'nine'
Turkmen sen [θしーたɛn] 'you' Realization of the /z/ phoneme
Tutchone Northern tho [θしーたo] 'pants'
Southern thü [θしーたɨ]
Upland Yuman Havasupai [θしーたerap] 'five'
Hualapai [θしーたarap]
Yavapai [θしーたerapi]
Venetian Eastern dialects çinque [ˈθしーたiŋkwe] 'five' Corresponds to /s/ in other dialects.
Wolaytta shiththa [ɕiθしーたθしーたa] 'flower'
Welsh saith [saiθしーた] 'seven'
Zhuang saw [θしーたaːu˨˦] 'language'
Zotung Standard dialect of Lungngo kacciade [kəˈθしーたʲaːðɛ] 'I go' Realized as [sʲ] and [t] in Aikap and other Northern dialects. It can also be voiced depending on the preceding consonant.

Voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant

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Voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant
s̻̪
s̪̻
s̟
Encoding
X-SAMPAs_m_d

The voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant is the only sibilant fricative in some dialects of Andalusian Spanish. It has no official symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet, though its features would be transcribed ⟨s̻̪⟩ or ⟨s̪̻⟩ (using the ⟨◌̻⟩, the diacritic marking a laminal consonant, and ⟨◌̪⟩, the diacritic marking a dental consonant). It is usually represented by an ad-hoc symbol such as ⟨s̄⟩, ⟨θしーたˢ̣⟩, or ⟨s̟⟩ (advanced diacritic).

Dalbor (1980) describes this sound as follows: "[s̄] is a voiceless, corono-dentoalveolar groove fricative, the so-called s coronal or s plana because of the relatively flat shape of the tongue body.... To this writer, the coronal [s̄], heard throughout Andalusia, should be characterized by such terms as "soft," "fuzzy," or "imprecise," which, as we shall see, brings it quite close to one variety of /θしーた/ ... Canfield has referred, quite correctly, in our opinion, to this [s̄] as "the lisping coronal-dental," and Amado Alonso remarks how close it is to the post-dental [θしーた̦], suggesting a combined symbol [θしーたˢ̣] to represent it".

Features

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Features of the voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Spanish Andalusian[17] casa [ˈkäs̻̪ä] 'house' Present in dialects with ceceo. See Spanish phonology

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Phoible.org. (2018). PHOIBLE Online - Segments. [online] Available at: http://phoible.org/parameters.
  2. ^ Wells (1982:565–66, 635)
  3. ^ Wells (1982:96–97, 328–30, 498, 500, 553, 557–58, 635)
  4. ^ Pétursson (1971:?), cited in Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:145)
  5. ^ Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:144–145)
  6. ^ Thelwall (1990:37)
  7. ^ [[#CITEREF|]]:224)
  8. ^ Versteegh (2001:159)
  9. ^ Watkins (2001:291–292)
  10. ^ Watkins (2001:292)
  11. ^ Fig. 11 La zeta bolognese (in Italian)
  12. ^ a b Regueira (1996:119–120)
  13. ^ a b Hall (1944:75)
  14. ^ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003:255)
  15. ^ García Mouton & Molina Martos (2016:283–296)
  16. ^ Molina Martos (2016:347–367)
  17. ^ a b Dalbor (1980:9)

References

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  • Dalbor, John B. (1980), "Observations on Present-Day Seseo and Ceceo in Southern Spain", Hispania, 63 (1), American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: 5–19, doi:10.2307/340806, JSTOR 340806
  • Einhorn, E. (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-09838-6
  • Hall, Robert A. Jr. (1944). "Italian phonemes and orthography". Italica. 21 (2). American Association of Teachers of Italian: 72–82. doi:10.2307/475860. JSTOR 475860.
  • Hickey, Raymond (1984), "Coronal Segments in Irish English", Journal of Linguistics, 20 (2): 233–250, doi:10.1017/S0022226700013876, S2CID 145672742
  • Ladefoged, Peter (2005), Vowels and Consonants (2nd ed.), Blackwell
  • Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.
  • Marotta, Giovanna; Barth, Marlen (2005), "Acoustic and sociolingustic aspects of lenition in Liverpool English" (PDF), Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online, 3 (2): 377–413, archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-02-25, retrieved 2008-11-15
  • Martínez-Celdrán, Eugenio; Fernández-Planas, Ana Ma.; Carrera-Sabaté, Josefina (2003), "Castilian Spanish", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33 (2): 255–259, doi:10.1017/S0025100303001373
  • Pétursson, Magnus (1971), "Étude de la réalisation des consonnes islandaises þ, ð, s, dans la prononciation d'un sujet islandais à partir de la radiocinématographie", Phonetica, 33 (4): 203–216, doi:10.1159/000259344, S2CID 145316121
  • Regueira, Xosé Luís (1996), "Galician", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 26 (2): 119–122, doi:10.1017/s0025100300006162, S2CID 241094214
  • Thelwall, Robin (1990), "Illustrations of the IPA: Arabic", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 20 (2): 37–41, doi:10.1017/S0025100300004266, S2CID 243640727
  • Versteegh, Kees (2001), The Arabic Language, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0748614363
  • Watkins, Justin W. (2001), "Illustrations of the IPA: Burmese" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31 (2): 291–295, doi:10.1017/S0025100301002122, S2CID 232344700
  • Wells, John C (1982), Accents of English, vol. second, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-24224-X
  • Molina Martos, Isabel (December 2016), "Variación de la -/d/ final de palabra en Madrid: ¿prestigio abierto o encubierto?", Boletín de filología (in Spanish), 51 (2): 347–367, doi:10.4067/S0718-93032016000200013
  • García Mouton, Pilar; Molina Martos, Isabel (1 January 2016), "La –/d/ final en el atlas dialectal de Madrid (ADIM): un cambio en marcha", Lapurdum (in Spanish) (19): 283–296, doi:10.4000/lapurdum.3375, hdl:10261/265245
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