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Dari

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Iranic

Lat/lon: 34.555349, 69.207486

ISO code: prs

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelaruvularglottal
stopp, bt, dk, gq
tapɾ
fricativefs, zʃ, ʒx, ɣh
affricatetʃ, dʒ
nasalmn
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
near-closeʊ
close-mideo
open-midɛʌ
near-openɐ

Diphthongs

/ui/, /ʌi/, /ɐi/, /ɐu/

Licit initial clusters

Ø

Licit syllabic templates

(C)V(C)(C)

Source: Baker, Adam. 2016. Dari (Afghan Persian). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 46,229–234.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)