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The Persian language has six vowel phonemes and twenty-three consonant phonemes. It features contrastive stress and syllable-final consonant clusters. ==Vowels== /e/ is pronounced between the vowel of ''bate'' (for most English dialects) and the vowel of ''bet''; /o/ is pronounced between the vowel of ''boat'' (for most English dialects) and the vowel of ''raw.'' Word-final is rare except for ('you' () (compare ''tú'' in Spanish), loanwords (mostly of Arabic origin), and proper and common nouns of foreign origin, and word-final is very rare in Iranian Persian, an exception being ('no'). The word-final in Early New Persian mostly shifted to in contemporary Iranian Persian (often romanized as , meaning is also an allophone of in word-final position in contemporary Iranian Persian), but is preserved in the Eastern dialects. The chart to the right reflects the vowels of many educated Persian speakers from Tehran.〔 The three vowels , and are traditionally referred to as 'short' vowels and the other three as 'long' vowels. In fact the three short vowels are short only when in a non-final open syllable (i.e. a syllable ending in a vowel), e.g. 'sound', 'God'. Otherwise they are pronounced the same length as the three long vowels, e.g. 'firmer'.〔Toosarvandani, Maziar D. 2004 ("Vowel Length in Modern Farsi" ), JRAS, Series 3, 14, 3, pp. 241–251.〕 When the short vowels are in open syllables, they are also unstable and tend in informal styles to assimilate in quality to the following long vowel. Thus 'two hundred' becomes , 'crowded' becomes , 'to arrive' becomes and so on.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Persian phonology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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