Dental consonants share acoustic similarity and in the Latin script are generally written with consistent symbols (e.g. t, d, n).
[1] Sanskrit, Hindustani and all other Indo-Aryan languages have an entire set of dental stops that occur phonemically as voiced and voiceless and with or without aspiration.
[citation needed] To native speakers, the English alveolar /t/ and /d/ sound more like the corresponding retroflex consonants of their languages than like dentals.
[citation needed] Spanish /t/ and /d/ are denti-alveolar,[2] while /l/ and /n/ are prototypically alveolar but assimilate to the place of articulation of a following consonant.
Dental/denti-alveolar consonants as transcribed by the International Phonetic Alphabet include: Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.