{"id":153,"date":"2008-07-03T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2009-03-23T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:12:56","slug":"phonology-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/phonology\/phonology-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be understood that in Persian vowels<\/strong> are not glided upon. In English they are always accompanied by a glide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00e6y<\/strong><\/td>\noff-glide on \/a\/<\/em><\/td>\nas in \u201ccat\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ey<\/strong><\/td>\noff-glide on \/e\/<\/em><\/td>\nas in \u201cforte\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ow<\/strong><\/td>\noff-glide on \/o\/<\/em><\/td>\nas in \u201croller\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u016be<\/strong><\/td>\noff-glide on \/oo\/<\/em> (= \/\u016b\/<\/em>)<\/td>\nas in \u201cpoor\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is not the case with Persian. In this lesson vowels are discussed briefly; more extensive discussion is left for the advanced level.<\/p>\n

Short Vowels:<\/strong> In Persian short vowels and their signs are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
[tag resources vowels_01]\u0640\u0640\u0640\u064e\u0640\u0640\u0640[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u00e1<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201ccat\u201d (no off-glide)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources vowels_02]\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0650\u0640\u0640\u0640[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u00e9<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201clet\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources vowels_03]\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u064f\u0640\u0640\u0640[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u00f3<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201clord\u201d (no off-glide)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Long Vowels<\/strong> are actual alphabetical characters, which functions as, both, a long vowel or a consonant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
[tag resources vowels_04]\u0640\u0640\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u0101<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201cfather\u201d<\/td>\n\u067e\u0627 p\u0101<\/em> foot, leg, \u0628\u0627\u062f b\u0101d<\/em> wind<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources vowels_05]\u0640\u0640\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u016b<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201ctool\u201d (no off-glide)<\/td>\n\u0634\u0648\u0631 \u0161ur<\/em> salty, \u062a\u0648\u062a tut<\/em> mulberry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources vowels_06]\u0640\u0640\u06cc[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u012b<\/strong><\/td>\nas in \u201cbeet\u201d<\/td>\n\u062f\u06cc\u0631 dir<\/em> late, \u0632\u06cc\u0646 zin<\/em> saddle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Diphthongs:<\/strong> In Persian they are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u0101y<\/strong><\/td>\nas in [tag resources vowels_07]\u0686\u0627\u06cc[\/tag]<\/td>\n\u010d\u0101y<\/em><\/td>\nblack tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ey<\/strong><\/td>\nas in [tag resources vowels_08] \u0646\u06cc[\/tag]<\/td>\nney<\/em><\/td>\nreed, bamboo, whicker, reed-flute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ow<\/strong><\/td>\nas in [tag resources vowels_09] \u062c\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\njow<\/em><\/td>\nbarley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
uy<\/strong><\/td>\nas in [tag resources vowels_10] \u0631\u0648\u06cc\u06af\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\nruygar<\/em><\/td>\nzinc-worker, coppersmith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the initial position, all vowels are accompanied by an alef:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
horse<\/td>\nasb<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_11]\u0627\u064e\u0633\u0628[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
name<\/td>\nesm<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_12]\u0627\u0650\u0633\u0645[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
duck<\/td>\nordak<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_13]\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u06a9[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
water<\/td>\n\u0101b<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_14]\u0622\u0628[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
he, she<\/td>\nu<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_15]\u0627\u0648[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iran<\/td>\nir\u0101n<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_16]\u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
veranda, portico<\/td>\neyv\u0101n<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_17]\u0627\u0650\u06cc\u0648\u0627\u0646[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
apogie, zenith<\/td>\nowj<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_18]\u0627\u064f\u0648\u062c[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ooch!<\/td>\nuy<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources vowels_19]\u0627\u0648\u06cc[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must be understood that in Persian vowels are not glided upon. In English they are always accompanied by a glide: \u00e6y off-glide on \/a\/ as in \u201ccat\u201d ey off-glide on \/e\/ as in \u201cforte\u201d ow off-glide on \/o\/ as in \u201croller\u201d \u016be off-glide on \/oo\/ (= \/\u016b\/) as in \u201cpoor\u201d This is not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions\/2964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}