Editing Pashto (section)

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+Consonant phonemes of Pashto{{sfnp|Tegey|Robson|1996|p=15}}
!
! colspan="2" | [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! colspan="2" | [[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|alveolar]]
! colspan="2" | [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br />alveolar]]
! colspan="2" | [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
! colspan="2" | [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! colspan="2" | [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! colspan="2" | [[Uvular consonant|Uvular]]
! colspan="2" | [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|m}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|n}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ɳ}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ŋ}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
|-
! [[Plosive consonant|Plosive]]
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|p}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|b}}
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|t̪|t}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|d̪|d}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|ʈ}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ɖ}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|k}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ɡ}}
| style="border-right: none;" | ({{IPA link|q}})
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
|-
! [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|t͡s}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|d͡z}}
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|d͡ʒ}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
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|-
! [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| style="border-right: none;" | ({{IPA link|f}})
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|s}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|z}}
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|ʃ}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ʒ}}
| colspan=2 style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|ʂ}}
| colspan=2 style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ʐ}}
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|x}}
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|ɣ}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" | {{IPA link|h}}
| style="border-left: none;" |
|-
! [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|l}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="border-right: none;" |{{IPA link|ɽ}}*
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|j}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|w}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
|-
! [[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" | {{IPA link|r}}
| style="border-right: none;" |
| style="border-left: none;" |
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|}
<small>*The retroflex rhotic or lateral, tends to be a [[Voiced retroflex lateral flap|lateral flap]] [{{IPA link|𝼈}}</small>] <small>at the beginning of a syllable or other prosodic unit, and a regular [[Voiced retroflex flap|flap]] [{{IPA link|ɽ}}</small>] <small>or [[Voiced retroflex approximant|approximant]] [{{IPA link|ɻ}}] elsewhere.<ref name="pashto1">D.N. MacKenzie, 1990, "Pashto", in Bernard Comrie, ed, ''The major languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa'', p. 103</ref><ref name="pashto2">Herbert Penzl, 1965, ''A reader of Pashto'', p 7</ref></small>