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Old Persian
Family: Indo-Iranian
Region: Ancient Iran
Time: 525-300 B.C.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
| Voiceless stop | p | t | tʃ | k | ||||
| Voiced stop | b | d | dʒ | g | ||||
| Voiceless fricative | f | θ | s | ʃ | x | h | ||
| Voiced fricative | β v | θ | z | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||
| Approximant | w | j |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i ĩ iː ĩː | u ũ uː ũː | |
| Low | a ã aː ãː | ||
| Syllabic | r̩ |
Bibliography
Author
Fabio Massimo D'Amato