The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a voiced glottalic plosive or stop. Its place of articulation is alveolar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [d]. The [d] sound in English is spelled with the same letter 'd', as in dig or fad.
The [d] sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain [d], and some distinguish more than variety.
Varieties of [d] {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ! IPA !! Description |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d || plain d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʱ or d̈ || aspirated or breathy voice d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʲ || palatalized d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʷ || labialized d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d˺ || unreleased d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d̥ || voiceless d |}
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ! IPA !! Description |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d || plain d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʱ or d̈ || aspirated or breathy voice d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʲ || palatalized d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|dʷ || labialized d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d˺ || unreleased d |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|d̥ || voiceless d |}
