Coronal consonant

Coronal consonants are articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue. Only the coronal consonants can be divided into apical (using the tongue tip), laminal (using the tongue blade), domed (with the tongue bunched up), or sub-apical (with the tongue curled back), as well as a few rarer orientations, because only the front of the tongue has such dexterity. Coronals also have another dimension, grooved, that is used to make sibilants in combination with the orientations above.

Coronal places of articulation include the dental consonants at the upper teeth, the alveolar consonants at the upper gum (the alveolar ridge), the various postalveolar consonants (domed palato-alveolar, laminal alveolo-palatal, and apical retroflex) just behind that, and the true retroflex consonants curled back against the hard palate.

(the list below is only partial, so far being just the alveolars)

IPA Symbol	Name of the consonant	Example
	Voiced alveolar fricative	zoo
	Voiceless alveolar fricative	sea
	Nasal alveolar sonorant	name
	Voiced alveolar plosive	day
height=32	Voiceless alveolar plosive	tea
	Alveolar approximant	root
	Lateral alveolar approximant	light

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