EURPhon: Southwestern Pashto (Kandahar)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Iranic

Lat/lon: 31.6, 65.7

ISO code: pbt

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	retroflex	palatal	velar
stop	pʰ, b		t̪ʰ, d̪			ʈʰ, ɖ		kʰ, g
tap						ɽ
fricative				s, z	ʃ, ʒ	ʂ, ʐ		x, ɣ
affricate				tsʰ, dz	tʃʰ, dʒ
nasal	m			n
approximant		w					j

Short nasalised series

	retroflex
tap	ɽ̃

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
near-close	ɪ		ʊ
mid		ə
open		a

Long series

	front	back
close-mid	eː	oː
open		ɑː

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)

Source: Elfenbein, Josef. 1997. Pashto phonology. Kaye, Alan S., and Peter T. Daniels (eds.) Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus). Vol. 1, 733–760. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns