Editing Dari (section)

=== Consonants ===
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![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br />alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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![[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
|{{IPA link|m}}
|{{IPA link|n}}
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![[Stop consonant|Stop]]/<br />[[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
|{{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|b}}
|{{IPA link|t̪|t}} {{IPA link|d̪|d}}
|{{IPA link|tʃ}} {{IPA link|dʒ}}
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|{{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|{{IPA link|q}}
|({{IPA link|ʔ}})
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![[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
|{{IPA link|f}}
|{{IPA link|s}} {{IPA link|z}}
|{{IPA link|ʃ}} {{IPA link|ʒ}}
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|{{IPA link|x}} {{IPA link|ɣ}}
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|{{IPA link|h}}
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![[Tap and flap consonants|Tap]]
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|{{IPA link|ɾ}}
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![[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
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|{{IPA link|l}}
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|{{IPA link|j}}
|{{IPA link|w}}
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* Stops /{{IPA|t, d}}/ are phonetically dental [{{IPA|t̪, d̪}}].
* A glottal stop /ʔ/ only appears in words of Arabic origin.
* A flap sound /{{IPA|ɾ}}/ may be realized as a trill sound [{{IPA|r}}], in some environments, mostly word-final position; otherwise, they contrast between vowels wherein a trill occurs as a result of gemination (doubling) of [{{IPA|ɾ}}], especially in loanwords of Arabic origin. Only [{{IPA link|ɾ}}] occurs before and after consonants; in word-final position, it is usually a free variation between a flap or a trill when followed by a consonant or a pause, but flap is more common, only flap before vowel-initial words.
* As in many other languages, {{IPA|/n/}} is realized as bilabial {{IPAblink|m}} before bilabial stops and as velar {{IPAblink|ŋ}} before velar stops.
* {{IPA|/f/}} is voiced to {{IPAblink|v}} before voiced consonants.
* /w/ is almost always voiced as {{IPAblink|w}}, as in Middle Persian.