voiced dental stop

The voiced dental stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

Features of the voiced dental stop:

The Sinhala alphabet has prenasalized versions of g, ḍ (voiced retroflex stop), d (voiced dental stop) and b.

This especially pertains to what appears to be confusion of voiceless and voiced dental stops, where signs -dV- and -tV- are employed interchangeably different attestations of the same word.

Native speakers of those languages in which the sound is not present often have difficulty enunciating or distinguishing it, and replace it with a voiced alveolar sibilant, a voiced dental stop, or a voiced labiodental fricative (known respectively as th-alveolarization, th-stopping, and th-fronting).