Vowels[]
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | iː | uː | |
| ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Open | a~æ | ɑː | ɒ |
/a/ may also range to a higher /æ/ in the Northern dialect.
Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | q | (ʔ) | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɢ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | (x) | χ | (h) | |
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | (ɣ) | ʁ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | |||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ | |||||||
| Approximant | ʋ~w | l | j | ɰ | ||||
/h/ mainly occurs as a glide to elongate short vowels (eg. /oh/; [ɔː]). [v~w] are allophones of a labiodental approximant /ʋ/. /ʁ/ occurs in Southern Luri. /ɲ/ as well as velar fricatives /x, ɣ/ as equivalent to uvular fricatives /χ, ʁ/, occur in Northern Luri. /ʔ/ occurs in Northern Luri, as well as in words borrowed from Persian.