1. Apparently, interdentals do not contrast with dental consonants within any language. 2. The dental consonants have palatalized allophones in free variation. 3. Pronunciation of dental consonants also varies with the ethnic origin of the speaker. 4. A dental consonant can be transcribed with the combining minus sign below } }. 5. The first stage affected only dental consonants , while the second stage affected all consonants. 6. The palatal series, which is most developed in ?H ?dialect, derive historically from dental consonants . 7. The dental consonants are " distributed ", with closure along a considerable distance of the vocal tract. 8. Denti-alveolar is an allophone of before dental consonants . is most often a tap in fast speech. 9. Before hard dental consonants ,, labial and dental consonants are hard : ('eagle'gen . sg ). 10. Before hard dental consonants,, labial and dental consonants are hard : ('eagle'gen . sg ).