Phylum: Semitic
Genus: Arabic
Lat/lon: 35.731032, 68.333712
ISO code:
| bilabial | labio-dental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | |
| stop | b | d̪, t̪ | g, k | ɢ | ||||||
| fricative | v, f | z, s | ʃ | ʁ, χ | ʕ, ħ | h | ||||
| affricate | dʒ, tʃ | |||||||||
| approximant | j |
| front | central | back | |
| close | u | ||
| near-close | ɪ | ||
| open | a |
| front | central | back | |
| close | iː | ||
| near-close | ʊː | ||
| close-mid | eː | oː | |
| open | aː |
Source: Ingham, Bruce. 2006. Afghanistan Arabic. Kees Versteegh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Vol. 1. Brill: Leiden; Boston. 28–35.
Comments: The coordinates are highly uncertain and reference what is presumably another Arabic-speaking village in the same region (Yakhdan instead of Xoshalabad). The true coordinates will hopefully become available when the Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan (https://www.philology.no/ala) is finally published. /v/ alternates with /ʋ/. /ʁ/ is sometimes pronounced as /ɢ/ when word initial. In the table, "voiced uvular plosive" is denoted by "q". /ts/ is sometimes found as a reflex of /tˤ/, which has mostly turned into /t/.
Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)