Voiceless dental fricative: Encyclopedia II - Voiceless dental fricative - Other Languages

Voiceless dental fricative - Other Languages

The voiceless dental fricative is relatively rare among the world's languages.

Voiceless dental fricative - Spanish

Peninsular Spanish uses the letter "z" (or "c" before i and e); this is believed to have evolved from an earlier "ts" sound. Dialects in Andalusia and Latin America, however, have changed this sound to /s/.

Voiceless dental fricative - Greek

Modern Greek uses the letter θ (theta), the IPA symbol.

Voiceless dental fricative - Albanian

Albanian uses the digraph "th"; unlike English, however, "th" is not used for its voiced counterpart (as in these clothes). Instead, the diagraph "dh" is used for that purpose.

Voiceless dental fricative - Welsh

Welsh uses the diagraph "th"; unlike English, however, "th" is not used for its voiced counterpart (as in these clothes). Instead, the diagraph "dd" is used for that purpose.

Voiceless dental fricative - Icelandic

Icelandic uses the letter þ (thorn). Old English used both þ and ð (eth) indiscrimately for both the voiceless and voiced dental fricative; in modern English both were replaced by the diagraph "th".

Voiceless dental fricative - Northern Sami

Northern Sami uses the letter ŧ.

Voiceless dental fricative - Hebrew

In most vocalizations of modern Hebrew this consonant is not used, but Ancient Hebrew used the letter ת (thav without dagesh. With dagesh it becomes תּ, tav)) for this sound. In several vocalizations, this distinction has been retained (e.g., Teimani).

Voiceless dental fricative - Arabic

Arabic uses the letter "ﺙ" (theh).

Voiceless dental fricative - Swahili

Swahili have adopted the sound from Arabic in loan words, and spell it "th".

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