🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

舌歯音

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zetsuhion

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Linguodental/ˌlɪŋ.ɡwəʊˈdɛn.təl/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"舌歯音は舌先を歯に当てて発音されます。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Pronounced with the tongue touching or close to the teeth.

    "Certain consonants are classified as linguodental sounds depending on the precise placement of the articulators."
As noun
  1. 1

    A speech sound articulated with the tongue against the teeth.

    "In phonetics, the dental or linguodental consonant is produced when the blade of the tongue contacts the upper teeth."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'lingua' (meaning tongue) combined with 'dentalis' (pertaining to teeth, from dens, dent-). It entered scientific and anatomical terminology in the 19th century to accurately describe speech sounds and structures involving both the tongue and the teeth.

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