Talk:Voiceless dental fricative

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The article right now says that "The voiceless dental fricative is relatively rare among the world's languages." Why is it a rare sound (even though I believe this statement)?

I'm going to remove this statement, as the sound appears in three languages with over 100 million speakers: English, Spanish and Arabic.

Actually, few Spanish speakers have this phoneme, only the peninsulares.Cameron Nedland 02:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)