Describing a speech sound that has been changed to be pronounced with the tongue near or touching the teeth.
Past tense and past participle of 'dentalize,' formed by adding '-ed' to the verb stem. It describes the result of the dentalization process.
The 'd' and 't' sounds in Icelandic are heavily dentalized—speakers touch their tongue to their front teeth—which gives the language its distinctive sharp, crisp quality compared to English!
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