An Introduction to Pashto Consonants

Abstract

Phonemes are divided in two types’ vowel and consonants. Consonants are the basic sounds but they have not any stress and activity without the help of vowels. Consonants are those sounds in producing, the air flow are stop through articulators in mouth. They articulated with complete or partial closer. These sound touch or close the articulators. We can identify the consonants by three patterns one is voicing second manner of articulation and third is place of articulation. Voicing tells us that articulated sound voice or un voice. The vibration during sound result voice otherwise will un voice. Manner of articulation describes the type and method in which difficulty caused by narrowing or closure of articulators. Some manners are stops, affricates, trill, flap, nasal, laterals and fricative.

The places of articulation are bilabial, dental, alveolar, velar and glottal. In this paper I discussed briefly about these types with examples.