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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Persian, Dari, and Tajik language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
In certain instances, the phonetic spelling of these surnames is utilized instead of their original spelling, likely to aid non-Chinese speakers in accurate pronunciation or reading of the names. In cases where the western order is maintained, their surname is placed at the end of the name.
The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbār , meaning "court", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids. [6] The original meaning of the word dari is given in a notice attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (cited by Ibn al-Nadim in Al-Fehrest). [26]
In Dari and Tajik /a/ is the most common vowel and at the end of a word may be pronounced as /æ/. [a] Unlike Iranian Persian, Dari has 5 long vowels /ɑː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. The Dari vowel /ɑː/ and the Iranian vowel /ɒː/ are, respectively, the unrounded and rounded versions of the same vowel. ('roundedness' refers to the ...
Dari preserves two long vowels ē and ō, while in Iranian Persian they are merged with ī and ū respectively. E.g. the Persian words for "lion" and "milk" are written شیر but pronounced differently in Dari and Classical Persian: shēr and shīr, but the same in Iran: shir. If you want to present this distinction, it is better to write the ...
Pronunciation / d ə ˈ r aɪ ə s, ˈ d ɛər i ə s / U.K. also: / ˈ d ɑːr-/ Gender: Male: Other gender; Feminine: Daria: Origin; Word/name: Persian: Derivation: Dariush (داریوش) Meaning: Holding firm the good: Region of origin: Persia: Other names; Variant form(s) Darius (surname) Related names: Dara, Dario, Daris
It is an eastern variety of Persian and closely related to Dari, one of the two official Languages of Afghanistan. The primary differences between Dari and Hazaragi are the accents [7] and Hazaragi's greater array of many Turkic and Mongolic words and loanwords [8] [9] [10] [5] Despite these differences, the two dialects are mutually ...
However, pronunciation varies widely among speakers, who may introduce elements of their local varieties. Television and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent. Elements of the sound system include not only the segments—e.g. vowels and consonants—of the language, but also the tones applied to each syllable ...