bilabial | labio-velar | labio-dental | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | pharyngeal | glottal | |
stop | b | t, d | k | ʔ | |||||
trill | r | ||||||||
fricative | f | s, z | ʃ, ʒ | x, ɣ | ħ, ʕ | h | |||
nasal | m | n | |||||||
approximant | w | j | |||||||
lateral approximant | l |
bilabial | alveolar | glottal | |
stop | bˤ | tˤ, dˤ | ʔˤ |
trill | rˤ | ||
fricative | sˤ, zˤ | ||
nasal | mˤ | ||
lateral approximant | lˤ |
front | central | |
close | ɨ, ʉ | |
mid | ə | |
near-open | æ |
front | central | back | |
close | iː | ||
near-close | ʊː | ||
close-mid | eː | ||
open-mid | ɔː | ||
open | aː |
CC
CC
(C)CV(ː), (C)CV(ː)C, (C)CVCC
Source: Naïm, Samia. 2006. Beirut Arabic. Kees Versteegh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Vol. 1. Brill: Leiden; Boston. 274–286.
Comments: Initial homorganic clusters assimilated to geminated consonants with an ultra-short prothetic vowel. In final position, two-consonant clusters are split with an /ᵊ/ before a pause.
Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)