Native Phonetic Inventory: dari

These are the sounds found in most native dari dialects: There are also sounds not on the chart, shown below.

other sounds: labio-velar central approximant [w]; four diphthings; /t/ and /d/ are dentals; /v/ is rare.

Adapted from: Foreign Service Institute (1960); GLassman, E. (1976); Shamal, A. (1965)