bilabial | labio-velar | labio-dental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | uvular | pharyngeal | glottal | |
stop | b | t, d | ɟ | k | q | ʔ | |||||
trill | r | ||||||||||
fricative | f | θ, ð | s | ʃ | x, ɣ | ħ, ʕ | |||||
nasal | m | n | |||||||||
approximant | w | j | |||||||||
lateral approximant | l |
dental | alveolar | |
stop | tˤ | |
fricative | ðˤ | sˤ |
front | central | back | |
close | i | u | |
open | a |
front | central | back | |
close | iː | uː | |
close-mid | eː | oː | |
open | aː |
CC
C{-r}
Source: Eades, Domenyk. 2009. Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong (eds.) Arabic Dialectology. In honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Brill: Leiden; Boston. 77–98.
Comments: The palatal plosive /ɟ/ is in free variation with [dʒ] (etymological variant), which is especially common after nasals. In most neighbouring (sedentary) dialects, it was replaced with /g/. [u] is user to break final clusters with /r/.
Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)