Some languages contrast laminal denti-alveolar and apical alveolar nasals. Alveolar stops and are either apical alveolar or laminal denti-alveolar. Standard Malayalam lacks the laminal palatalized postalveolar. The plosive consonants are laminal denti-alveolar and the fricatives are laminal alveolar. Basque has a distinction between laminal and apical articulation for the alveolar fricatives and affricates. Ubykh distinguishes three types of postalveolar consonants&colon; apical, laminal, and laminal closed. The primary distinction for such sounds is between laminal palatalized and apical retroflex non-palatalized. The phone is actually a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative . Alveolar stops are realized as laminal denti-alveolar . They are apical, retroflex, laminal and pre-laminal. A distinction can be made between laminal, apical, and sub-apical articulations. It may produce a laminal articulation of otherwise apical consonants such as and . A very common laminal articulation is sometimes called denti-alveolar. In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal . Thus, many varieties of English have either apical or laminal pairs of .