Editing Aspirated consonant (section)

===Greek===
{{main|Ancient Greek phonology}}

[[Ancient Greek]], including the [[Attic Greek|Classical Attic]] and [[Koine Greek]] dialects, had a three-way distinction in stops like Eastern Armenian: {{IPA|/t tʰ d/}}. These series were called {{wikt-lang|grc|ψιλός|ψιλά}}, {{wikt-lang|grc|δασύς|δασέα}}, {{wikt-lang|grc|μέσος|μέσα}} (''psilá, daséa, mésa'') "smooth, rough, intermediate", respectively, by Koine Greek grammarians.

There were aspirated stops at three places of articulation: labial, coronal, and velar {{IPA|/pʰ tʰ kʰ/}}. Earlier Greek, represented by [[Mycenaean Greek]], likely had a labialized velar aspirated stop {{IPA|/kʷʰ/}}, which later became labial, coronal, or velar depending on dialect and phonetic environment.

The other Ancient Greek dialects, [[Ionic Greek|Ionic]], [[Doric Greek|Doric]], [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolic]], and [[Arcadocypriot Greek|Arcadocypriot]], likely had the same three-way distinction at one point, but Doric seems to have had a fricative in place of {{IPA|/tʰ/}} in the Classical period.

Later, during the Koine and Medieval Greek periods, the aspirated and voiced stops {{IPA|/tʰ d/}} of Attic Greek [[Lenition#Opening|lenited]] to voiceless and voiced fricatives, yielding {{IPA|/θ ð/}} in [[Medieval Greek|Medieval]] and [[Modern Greek]]. [[Cypriot Greek]] is notable for aspirating its inherited (and developed across word-boundaries) voiceless geminate stops, yielding the series /pʰː tʰː cʰː kʰː/.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Loukina|first=Anastassia|date=2005|title=Phonetics and Phonology of Cypriot Geminates in Spontaneous Speech|url=http://www.aloukina.com/papers/LoukinaCamling.pdf|journal=CamLing|pages=263–270}}</ref>