Consonants
This is the Western Armenian Consonantal System using symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), followed by the corresponding Armenian letter in parentheses.
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m (մ) | n (ն) | |||||||
| Plosive | pʰ (բ, փ) | tʰ (դ, թ) | kʰ (գ, ք) | ||||||
| b (պ) | d (տ) | ɡ (կ) | |||||||
| Affricate | tsʰ (ձ, ց) | tʃ (չ, ջ) | |||||||
| dz (ծ) | dʒ (ճ) | ||||||||
| Fricative | f (ֆ) | s (ս) | ʃ (շ) | χ (խ) | h (հ, յ) | ||||
| v (վ, ւ, ու, ո) | z (զ) | ʒ (ժ) | ʁ (ղ) | ||||||
| Approximant | l (լ) | j (յ, ե, ի, է) | |||||||
| Flap | ɾ (ռ, ր) | ||||||||
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