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Wikipedia key to pronunciation of Serbo-Croatian
 | 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. | |
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Serbo-Croatian (the Croatian 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
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IPA |
Example |
Nearest English equivalent
|
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Latin |
Cyrillic
|
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b
|
bob
|
???
|
bob
| d
|
dan
|
?
|
doom
| d?[1] |
?ak
|
?
|
jug, but more of a y-like sound.
| d?[1][2] |
d?ep
|
?e?
|
just
| 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
|
?
|
burden
| ?[3] |
banka
|
?
|
bank
| ?
|
konj
|
?
|
canyon, but said quickly
| p
|
pet
|
?
|
space
| r
|
robot
|
??
|
trilled r
| r?
|
vrba
|
??
|
US verb, but trilled
| s
|
stol
|
?
|
stole
| ?[4] |
?uma
|
?
|
shell
| t
|
tata
|
????
|
star
| t?[1] |
?up
|
?
|
cheap, but more of a y-like sound.
| ts
|
?orc
|
?
|
shorts
| t?[1][5] |
?eki?
|
??
|
chip
| ?[6] |
voda
|
?
|
between vet and wet
| x
|
hir
|
?
|
Scottish loch
| z
|
zima
|
?
|
zoo
| ?[7] |
?aba
|
?
|
treasure
|
|
Vowels
|
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IPA |
Example |
Nearest English equivalent (long vowels with falling tone)
|
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Latin |
Cyrillic
|
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a
|
rad
|
???
|
father
| e
|
let
|
???
|
let
| i
|
list
|
??
|
least
| o
|
more
|
??
|
more (SE)
| u
|
trup
|
??
|
tool
|
Tone and vowel length
|
---|
Tonic marks are not normally written but are found in dictionaries.[8] | IPA |
Example |
Explanation
|
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Latin |
Cyrillic
|
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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.
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