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Encyclopedia > Persian phonology

The Persian language has six vowels and twenty-three consonants, including one glide /j/, and two affricates /ʧ/ and /ʤ/. The International Phonetic Alphabet. ... Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... Persian (فارسی / پارسی), (local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan: ‘Fârsi’), ‘Pârsi’ (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran (Persia), Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, western Pakistan, Bahrain, and elsewhere. ... In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract. ... A consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture sufficient to cause audible turbulence, at one or more points along the vocal tract. ...


Vowels

Diachronically, Persian possessed a distinction of length in its underlying vowel inventory, contrasting the long vowels /i:/, /u:/, /ɑ:/ with the short vowels /e/, /o/, /æ/. In Modern Persian, this distinction of quantity is neutralized in most environments; short vowels lengthen in closed syllables. Because the neutralization is not complete and other processes, including a number of vowel quality alternations, depend on this distinction of length, it is not possible to analyze the underlying vowel inventory of Modern Persian without length. On the other hand, for reasons of concreteness, it is not desirable to analyze the short and long vowels as identical in quality (with their respective differences being derived by rule.) Thus, the most concrete and adequate representation of the vowel inventory is that given below.

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Diphthongs

Persian has two diphthongs, /ei/ and /ou/.


Consonants

Consonants
 
labial

alveolars

post-alveolars

velars

glottals

 voiceless stops
p
t
ʧ
k
ʔ
 voiced stops
b
d
ʤ
g
 
 voiceless fricatives
f
s
ʃ
x
h
 voiced fricatives
v
z
ʒ
ɣ
 
 nasals
m
n
     
 liquids  
l, r
     
 glides    
j
   


Note that /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ are affricates, not stops.



 

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