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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Serbo-Croatian on Wikipedia.

It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Serbo-Croatian in popflock.com resource articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or its value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Serbo-Croatian (the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian standards thereof) pronunciations in popflock.com resource articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to popflock.com resource articles, see {{IPA-sh}}, {{IPA-sr}}, {{IPA-hr}}, and popflock.com Resource: Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Examples below in the Latin script are given in the Ijekavian pronunciation, while Cyrillic ones are in the Ekavian pronunciation. See Serbo-Croatian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of these languages.

Consonants
IPA	Example		Nearest English equivalent
IPA	Latin	Cyrillic	Nearest English equivalent
b	bob	???	bob
d	dan	?	doom
d?^[1]	?ak	?	jeez
d?^[1]^[2]	d?ep	?e?	like George, but retroflex
f	film	?	film
?	gore	?	gore
j	ja	??	yaw
k	kola	?	score
l	Luka	?	fill
l?	bicikl	?	little
?	bilje	??	million
m	more	?	more
n	ne	??	no
n?	njutn	?	newton
?^[3]	banka	?	bank
?	konj	?	canyon
p	pet	?	space
r	robot	??	robot, but trilled
r?	vrba	??	US verb, but trilled
s	stol	?	stole
?^[4]	?uma	?	shell
t	tata	????	star
t?^[1]	?up	?	cheese
ts	?orc	?	shorts
t?^[1]^[5]	?eki?	??	like church, but retroflex
?^[6]	voda	?	van
x	hir	?	here
z	zima	?	zoo
?^[7]	?aba	?	fusion

Vowels
IPA	Example		Nearest English equivalent (long vowels with falling tone)
IPA	Latin	Cyrillic	Nearest English equivalent (long vowels with falling tone)
a	rad	???	father
e	let	???	let
i	list	??	least
o	more	??	more
u	trup	??	tool

Tone and vowel length
Tonic marks are not normally written but are found in dictionaries.^[8]
IPA	Example		Explanation
IPA	Latin	Cyrillic	Explanation
e	sezóna	??	non-tonic short vowel
e:	ùz?ti		non-tonic long vowel^[9]
?	djèca	??	short vowel with rising tone
?:	kréda		long vowel with rising tone
ê	sj?me	??	short vowel with falling tone
ê:	r?p	???	long vowel with falling tone

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Many speakers in Croatia and some in Bosnia have no distinction between /t?/ and /t?/ (⟨?⟩ and ⟨?⟩) or between /d?/ and /d?/ (⟨?⟩ and ⟨d?⟩) and are both pronounced [t?] and [d?] respectively.
^ Sometimes transcribed as .
^ Allophone of /n/ before velar consonants.
^ Sometimes transcribed as .
^ Sometimes transcribed as .
^ ⟨v⟩ is a light fricative, more precisely transcribed [] or [v?]. However, it does not behave as a fricative in that it does not devoice to *[f] before a voiceless consonant and it does not cause preceding voiceless consonants to become voiced.
^ Sometimes transcribed as .
^ Tone marks can also be found on syllabic consonants, such as [] and [r:]. Some articles may use the stress mark, ['e], which could correspond to either of the tonic accents (rising or falling) and so they are not a complete transcription, although many speakers in Croatia have no tone distinctions.
^ Many speakers in Croatia and Serbia pronounce most unstressed long vowels as short.

External links

Hrvatski jezi?ni portal (in Serbo-Croatian)

[affricates-1] Many speakers in Croatia and some in Bosnia have no distinction between /t?/ and /t?/ (⟨?⟩ and ⟨?⟩) or between /d?/ and /d?/ (⟨?⟩ and ⟨d?⟩) and are both pronounced [t?] and [d?] respectively.

[2] Sometimes transcribed as .

[3] Allophone of /n/ before velar consonants.

[4] Sometimes transcribed as .

[5] Sometimes transcribed as .

[v-6] ⟨v⟩ is a light fricative, more precisely transcribed [] or [v?]. However, it does not behave as a fricative in that it does not devoice to *[f] before a voiceless consonant and it does not cause preceding voiceless consonants to become voiced.

[7] Sometimes transcribed as .

[8] Tone marks can also be found on syllabic consonants, such as [] and [r:]. Some articles may use the stress mark, ['e], which could correspond to either of the tonic accents (rising or falling) and so they are not a complete transcription, although many speakers in Croatia have no tone distinctions.

[9] Many speakers in Croatia and Serbia pronounce most unstressed long vowels as short.

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