The voiced dental fricative is a consonant sound used in some spoken languages.

It has been proposed that either a turned ⟨ð⟩[2] or reversed ⟨ð⟩[3] be used as a dedicated symbol for the dental approximant, but despite occasional usage, this has not gained general acceptance.

However, some "periphery" languages such as Greek have the sound in their consonant inventories, as phonemes or allophones.

Within Turkic languages, Bashkir and Turkmen have both voiced and voiceless dental non-sibilant fricatives among their consonants.

Features of the voiced dental non-sibilant fricative: In the following transcriptions, the undertack diacritic may be used to indicate an approximant [ð̞].