Vowels

1. ^Diacritics are based on Classical Persian. Due to phonemic mergers in Iranian Persian, the diacritic usage here may not be reflective of how diacritics are used in contemporary Iranian Persian.
2. ^In colloquial speech, frequently raised to/uː/ before nasals.
3. ^Exact quality uncertain. Likely closer to[ɑ], but editor consensus is to keep the Classical transcription broad (not specific).
4. ^variously described as [o̞], [ɒ], [ɔ] and [ɔː], some level of free variation is likely.
5. ^Typically raised to/e/ in the word final position. Occasionally raised elsewhere, particularly before a syllable with a high vowel.
6. ↑^6.06.1In Dari and Tajik,ä is often realized as/æ/ in the word final position. In Dari, this vowel may also be realized as/ɑː/ before a glottal consonant.
7. ↑^7.07.1Often lowered to[e̞] before the glottal consonants/h/ or/ʔ/
8. ↑^8.08.1Many linguists have reported phonetic instability of this vowel. According to SIL International's phonological report for Dari, this phoneme randomly varies between[ɪ] or[e̞]~[ɛ] and it is not possible to predict pronunciation. The University of Maryland and Encyclopedia Iranica report a combination of free variation and dialectal factors, with Iranica reporting that urban speakers in Kabul tend to realize this phoneme as/ɪ/. Wiktionary uses this analysis based on urban speakers in Kabul, this analysis is also more neutral to dialects such as Hazaragi and northern dialects that predominantly realize this vowel as a high or near-high vowel. However phonetic transcriptions should use[e̞] in cases where the vowel always or predominately lowered, such as before glottal consonants and some loanwords.
   Linguists at Georgetown Univeristy report some Tajik dialects have some variation between[i] and[ɛ] similarly to Dari, but not to the same extent.
9. ^Free variation with/o/ and/ʉ/, interpreted by Wiktionary as/ɵː/
10. ↑^10.010.1Often lowered to[o̞] before the glottal consonants/h/ or/ʔ/

Schwa and Epenthetic short vowels

Consonants

1. ↑^1.01.11.2The glottal consonants /h/ and /ʔ/ are almost never pronounced in colloquial Dari. While these consonants are frequently dropped in other colloquial dialects, they are not dropped near universally as they are in Dari
2. ↑^2.02.12.2In Early New Persian,ب andد had secondary, softened pronunciations. Generally, these pronunciations were merely allophonic variations; But, in early manuscripts, these pronunciations were irregularly marked byڤ andذ, (withڤ being replaced withو andب early on), and may have been phonemic in some words.
3. ^In some words, may also be realized as/w/ in colloquial speech. In Tajik the realizations[v] and[β] are also common.
4. ↑^{4.04.14.24.34.4}In Dari, Iranian and Tajik Persian, and presumably Classical Persian, all voiceless stops are aspirated.
5. ^ In Eastern dialects the phonemeɾ tends to be dropped before dental consonants. Though not in formal speech.
6. ↑^6.06.1(In Iranian Persian) May be palatized before a front vowel.
7. ^In Eastern dialects, morpheme-terminal n is omitted in some high frequency words. Though in Tajik this only occurs in southern dialects.
8. ^Linguist Daniel A. Rees at Georgetown University argues that this phoneme was realized as /ʋ/ in Classical/Early New Persian, and the modern /w/ - /v/ split comes from a former /w/ - /v/ free variation.
9. ^In Tajik,[v] appears in proximity to unrounded vowels and[w] appears in proximity to rounded vowels. This phoneme is never realized as[v] in Dari, however.

Dialectal consonants

1. ^Characters from Urdu and Pashto are sometimes used by Hazaragi linguists to denote retroflex consonants, but retroflex consonants are not typically denoted by speakers, and do not have corresponding characters in Standard Dari.