Editing Tajik language (section)

===Consonants===
The Tajik language contains 24 consonants, 16 of which form contrastive pairs by voicing: [б/п] [в/ф] [д/т] [з/с] [ж/ш] [ҷ/ч] [г/к] [ғ/х].<ref name="Khojayori, Nasrullo 2009"/> The table below lists the consonant phonemes in standard, literary Tajik. Letters from the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet are given first, followed by IPA transcription.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
![[dental consonant|Dental]]/<br />[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-alv.]]/<br />[[palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[velar consonant|Velar]]
![[uvular consonant|Uvular]]
![[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
|м {{IPAslink|m}}
|н {{IPAslink|n}}
|
|
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Stop consonant|Stop]]/<br>[[Affricate]]
!<small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
|п {{IPAslink|p}} 
|т {{IPAslink|t}} 
|ч {{IPAslink|tʃ}} 
|к {{IPAslink|k}} 
|қ {{IPAslink|q}}
|ъ {{IPAslink|ʔ}}
|-
!<small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
|б {{IPAslink|b}}
|д {{IPAslink|d}}
|ҷ {{IPAslink|dʒ}}
|г {{IPAslink|ɡ}}
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
!<small>[[Voicelessness|voiceless]]</small>
|ф {{IPAslink|f}} 
|с {{IPAslink|s}} 
|ш {{IPAslink|ʃ}} 
|
|х {{IPAslink|χ}} 
|ҳ {{IPAslink|h}}
|-
!<small>[[Voice (phonetics)|voiced]]</small>
|в {{IPAslink|v}}
|з {{IPAslink|z}}
|ж {{IPAslink|ʒ}}
|
|ғ {{IPAslink|ʁ}}
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
|
|л {{IPAslink|l}}
|й {{IPAslink|j}}
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Trill consonant|Trill]]
|
|р {{IPAslink|r}}
|
|
|
|
|}

At least in the dialect of [[Bukhara]], ⟨Ч ч⟩ and ⟨Ҷ ҷ⟩ are pronounced {{IPAslink|tɕ}} and {{IPAslink|dʑ}} respectively, with ⟨Ш ш⟩ and ⟨Ж ж⟩ also being {{IPAslink|ɕ}} and {{IPAslink|ʑ}}.<ref>Ido, Shinji. 2014. Illustrations of the IPA: Bukharan Tajik. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 44. 87–102. Cambridge University Press.</ref>