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===Other languages=== [[File:Boundary stone on the Demeljoch - 2.jpg|thumb|The letter D, standing for "Deutschland" ([[German language|German]] for "[[Germany]]"), on a [[boundary stone]] at the border between Austria and Germany.]] In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, {{angbr|d}} generally represents the [[voiced alveolar plosive|voiced alveolar]] or [[voiced dental plosive]] {{IPA|/d/}}. In the [[Vietnamese alphabet]], it represents the sound {{IPA|/z/}} in northern dialects or {{IPA|/j/}} in southern dialects. In [[Fijian language|Fijian]], it represents a [[prenasalized consonant|prenasalized]] stop {{IPA|/βΏd/}}.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Pacific languages: an introduction |first=John |last=Lynch |page=97 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYfV1jN3whUC&q=d+fijian+prenasalized&pg=PA97 |year=1998 |publisher=[[University of Hawaii Press]] |isbn=0-8248-1898-9 }}</ref> In some languages where [[voice (phonetics)|voice]]less [[aspiration (phonetics)|unaspirated]] stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, {{angbr|d}} represents an unaspirated {{IPA|/t/}}, while {{angbr|t}} represents an aspirated {{IPA|/tΚ°/}}. Examples of such languages include [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Scottish Gaelic]], [[Navajo language|Navajo]] and the [[pinyin]] transliteration of [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]].
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