The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is ⟨n⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n. The vast majority of languages have either an alveolar or dental nasal.

However, the rearmost contact, which gives a consonant its distinctive sound, is actually alveolar or denti-alveolar.

A true dental generally occurs allophonically before /θ/ in the languages that have it, as in English tenth.

A postalveolar nasal occurs in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages, including Djeebbana and Jingulu.