Editing Persian language (section)

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-alv.]]/<br>[[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
![[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}} || {{IPA link|n}} || || ||  ||
|-
![[Stop consonant|Stop]]
| {{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|b}} || {{IPA link|t}} {{IPA link|d}} || {{IPA link|t͡ʃ}} {{IPA link|d͡ʒ}} || {{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|ɡ}} || ({{IPA link|q}})||{{IPA link|ʔ}}
|-
![[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| {{IPA link|f}} {{IPA link|v}} || {{IPA link|s}} {{IPA link|z}} || {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{IPA link|ʒ}} || {{IPA link|x}} {{IPA link|ɣ}}
||| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
|-
![[Tap consonant|Tap]]
| || [[Dental and alveolar flaps|ɾ]] || || || ||
|-
![[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| || {{IPA link|l}} || {{IPA link|j}} || || ||
|-
|}
Notes:

* in [[Iranian Persian]] {{IPAslink|ɣ}} and {{IPAslink|q}} have merged into {{IPA|[{{IPA link|ɣ}}~{{IPA link|ɢ}}]}}, as a voiced velar fricative {{IPA|[ɣ]}} when positioned [[intervocalic]]ally and unstressed, and as a voiced uvular stop {{IPA|[ɢ]}} otherwise.<ref name="ipa_handbook">{{cite book |title=Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33BSkFV_8PEC&pg=PA125 |author=International Phonetic Association |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-521-63751-0 |location=Cambridge |pages=124–125}}</ref><ref name="jahani2005">{{cite book |title=Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic |last=Jahani |first=Carina |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon |year=2005 |isbn=0-415-30804-6 |editor=Éva Ágnes Csató |location=London |pages=79–96 |chapter=The Glottal Plosive: A Phoneme in Spoken Modern Persian or Not? |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdA1K3E66UgC&pg=PA79 |editor2=Bo Isaksson |editor3=Carina Jahani}}</ref><ref name="thackston1993_phonology">{{cite book |title=An Introduction to Persian |last=Thackston |first=W. M. |date=1 May 1993 |publisher=Ibex Publishers |isbn=0-936347-29-5 |edition=3rd Rev |page=xvii |chapter=The Phonology of Persian |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00thac |url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00thac}}</ref>
* {{IPA|/n/}} is realized as {{IPAblink|ŋ}} before velar consonants.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}