{"id":202,"date":"2008-07-14T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2009-04-16T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:16:59","slug":"long-vowels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/phonology\/long-vowels\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
[tag resources longvowels_01a]\u0101[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis a low back open vowel, very close to [-aa-] in ‘aardvark’ and [-a-] in ‘father.’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources longvowels_02a]<\/em><\/strong>u[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis invariably a high back round vowel, very close to [-oo-]. Compare and contrast the English word ‘poor’ and Persian \u067e\u0648\u0631 pur<\/em> \u2018son (of)\u2019. Unlike English, there is no off-glide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources longvowels_03]<\/em><\/strong>i[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis invariably a high front vowel \/\u012b\/, very close to [-ee-] in ‘cheese’ and [-ea-] in \u201cplease\u201d; it is never a central \/i\/ (as in \u201csit\u201d).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Listen to the long vowels in the following set:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
starling<\/td>\n<\/em><\/strong>\u0101<\/em><\/strong> as in s\u0101r<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources longvowels_04]\u0633\u0627\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
feast<\/td>\n<\/em><\/strong>u<\/em><\/strong> as in sur<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources longvowels_05]\u0633\u0648\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
garlic<\/td>\n<\/em><\/strong>i<\/em><\/strong> as in sir<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources longvowels_06]\u0633\u06cc\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note that in Classical Persian, some words with a terminal long vowel [\u0101] and [\u016b] have a variation with a \u06cc following that vowel:<\/p>\n

[tag resources longvowels_01]\u067e\u0627[\/tag]
\np\u0101<\/em>
\n[tag resources longvowels_02]\u067e\u0627\u06cc[\/tag]
\np\u0101y<\/em>
\n\u2018foot, leg\u2019<\/p>\n

[tag resources longvowels_09]\u062e\u062f\u0627[\/tag]
\nxod\u0101<\/em>
\n[tag resources longvowels_10]\u062e\u062f\u0627\u06cc[\/tag]
\nxod\u0101y<\/em>
\n\u2018god, God\u2019<\/p>\n

[tag resources longvowels_11]\u062c\u0648[\/tag]
\n j\u016b <\/em>
\n[tag resources longvowels_12]\u062c\u0648\u06cc[\/tag]
\nj\u016by<\/em>
\n\u2018stream\u2019<\/p>\n

[tag resources longvowels_13]\u0645\u0648[\/tag]
\nm\u016b<\/em>
\n[tag resources longvowels_14]\u0645\u0648\u06cc[\/tag]
\nm\u016by<\/em>
\n\u2018hair\u2019<\/h5>\n

In addition, some interjections, such as \u0622\u06cc \u0101y<\/em> \u2018an expression of pain; also ‘ahoy!\u2019<\/em> and \u0648\u0627\u06cc v\u0101y<\/em> \u2018an expression of surprise and astonishment\u2019 have the [-\u0101y] ending. Therefore, in Persian\u2014at least historically\u2014the diphthongs \u0101y<\/em> and \u016by<\/em> also exist (see Diphthongs<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[tag resources longvowels_01a]\u0101[\/tag] is a low back open vowel, very close to [-aa-] in ‘aardvark’ and [-a-] in ‘father.’ [tag resources longvowels_02a]u[\/tag] is invariably a high back round vowel, very close to [-oo-]. Compare and contrast the English word ‘poor’ and Persian \u067e\u0648\u0631 pur \u2018son (of)\u2019. Unlike English, there is no off-glide. [tag resources longvowels_03]i[\/tag] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/3562"}],"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=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}