Alveolar Consonants

Alveolar consonants are consonants that have the tip as the active articulator and the alveolar ridge as the passive articulator.

In Orish, there is no distinction between alveolar consonants and dental consonants at all, but a distinction between alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates exists. Some people have lisp, and they commonly pronounce alveolar fricatives and affricates as interdental, and in Orish it's okay, even Or Hoshmand does it like that.

Alveolar Consonants in Orish

 * T - represents the unvoiced alveolar plosive.


 * D - represents the voiced alveolar plosive.


 * N - represents the alveolar nasal.


 * L - represents the alveolar lateral approximant.


 * R - represents the rhotic phoneme, some of its free allphones are alveolar.


 * S - represents the unvoiced alveolar fricative.


 * Z - represents the voiced alveolar fricative.
 * TS - represents the unvoiced alveolar affricate.
 * DZ - represents the voiced alveolar affricate.