User:Saranamd/Persian phonetic IPA

Based on the "Phonetics" (and partially "Phonology") chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Note that this conflicts somewhat with the Wikipedia article on, which is mostly unsourced.

Obstruents

 * The coronal stops are realized as dental, i.e.
 * The velar stops are realized as palatal, i.e., except before
 * The voiceless stops and affricate are aspirated, i.e.
 * There is some conflicting information about whether the voiceless consonants can be non-aspirated, but it seems easier to just keep them as always aspirated.
 * Devoicing of voiced consonants:
 * The voiced stops and affricate are devoiced word-finally or adjacent to a voiceless consonant, i.e..
 * You could also write this as, although this would be confusing given the existence of phonemic voiceless consonants. Maybe keep but use  instead of ?
 * is also realized as word-initially.
 * is realized as word-initially when not realized as . So we have  and  word-initially
 * is realized as between vowels, and as  before a voiceless consonant
 * All vowel-initial words have a non-phonemic glottal stop, so the glottal stop is only phonemic within a word
 * is voiced between vowels, i.e.

Sonorants

 * is realized as before
 * assimilates in place of articulation with the following consonant:
 * before
 * before
 * before
 * before
 * before
 * before
 * is devoiced word-finally, i.e.
 * also becomes a fricative word-finally when after a voiceless consonant, i.e.
 * is most commonly realized as in modern Iran
 * This conflicts with the traditional analysis, in which is  between vowels and  word-initially, but is apparently based on recent spectrogram analysis of Iranian standard variety speakers.

Vowels
Nothing special.