Alveolar Consonant

  

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Alveolar Consonant

Definition: Alveolar Consonant

Alveolar Consonant

Noun

1. A consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Alveolar Consonant

Synonyms: alveolar (n), dental consonant (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Alveolar consonant

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Alveolars are consonants articulated with the tip of the tongue against the internal side of the upper gums (known as the alveoles of the upper teeth).

Examples:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alveolar consonant."

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Alternative Orthography: Alveolar Consonant


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 76 65 6F 6C 61 72      43 6F 6E 73 6F 6E 61 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01110110 01100101 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#118 &#101 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0076 0065 006F 006C 0061 0072      0043 006F 006E 0073 006F 006E 0061 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35788871817867842378180858180678086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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