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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Slovene language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-sl }} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
See Slovene phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Slovene.
Consonants
IPA
Examples
nearest English equivalent
b
b ob
b ob
d
d an
d one
dz
brivec brije[ 1]
heads
dʒ
dž ez
G eorge
f
f ilm
f ilm
ɡ
g ora
g ore
ɣ
vrh drevesa[ 1]
Spanish rasg o
j
j az[ 2]
y aw
k
k olo, brlog
c ola
l
l uka[ 2]
L uke
m
m orje, Istan bul[ 3]
m ore
ɱ
sim fonija, in formacija[ 3]
com fort
n
n e[ 3] [ 2]
n o
ŋ
ban ka[ 3]
ban k
p
p et, bob
p et
ɾ
r obot
US at om
s
s tol, džez
s tole
ʃ
š um
sh ell
t
t i, pred
t attoo
ts
c ar
shorts
tʃ
č aj
ch urch
v
filozof [ 1]
v an
ʋ
v oda
w
cerkev [ 4]
w e
ʍ
v si[ 4]
wh ite or tw ice
x
h arfa
Scottish loch
z
z ima
z oo
ʒ
ž aba
fus ion
Combinations of vowels and tone [ 5]
Low tone (or "rising") vowels
IPA
Stress orth.
Tonal orth.[ 6] [ 7]
Examples
nearest English equivalent
àː
á
da nes
fa ther
ɛ̀ː
ê
é
ze mlja
British square
èː
é
ẹ́
ce rkev
la te
ə̀
è
ə̀
se m (stressed)
a bout
ə̀ɾ
ŕ
vr ba
US ver b (but trilled )
ìː
í
hi ša
lea st
ɔ̀ː
ô
ó
po ten
do g
òː
ó
ọ́
ero tičen
sto ry
ùː
ú
tru plo
scoo p
High tone (or "falling") vowels
á
à
ȁ
bra t
stru t
áː
á
ȃ
gra d
fa ther
ɛ́
è
ȅ
me t
le t
ɛ́ː
ê
ȇ
adve rb
British square
éː
é
ẹ̑
kre da
la te
ə́
è
ə̏
pe s
a bout
ə́ɾ
ŕ
ȓ
tr žnica
US ver b (but trilled )
í
ì
ȉ
bi k
li st
íː
í
ȋ
li st
lea st
ɔ́
ò
ȍ
o n
o ff
ɔ́ː
ô
ȏ
alko va
do g
óː
ó
ọ̑
po t
sto ry
ú
ù
ȕ
kru h
foo t
úː
ú
ȗ
romu nščina
scoo p
ý
ǜ
ü̏
Tü rk [ 8]
somewhat like cu te
Unstressed vowels
a
a
žena
fa ther (but shorter )
ɛ
e
e
medve d
le t
ə
ə
dane s
a bout
əɾ
er, r
ər, r
koder , potr diti
US ver b (but trilled )
i
i
biti
li st
ɔ
o
poto k
lo t
u
u
mamu t
foo t
Stress [ 7]
IPA
Stress orth.
Tonal orth.
Example
Explanation
ˈ
N/A
[ˈsə̀m]
primary stress
↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 [dz, ɣ, v] are allophones of /ts, x, f/ that occur before voiced consonants (Template:Harvcoltxt ).
↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Orthographic sequences Template:Angbr are pronounced /lj, nj, rj/ only if a vowel follows; otherwise, the /j/ is not pronounced. For Template:Angbr , it is reflected in the orthography, but for Template:Angbr it is not.
↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Nasals always assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant. Before velar consonants they are Template:IPAblink , and before labial consonants they are Template:IPAblink ; the labiodental Template:IPAblink appears before /f/ and /ʋ/ . Orthographic Template:Angbr before Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr is rare and is confined mostly to loanwords.
↑ 4,0 4,1 Standard Slovene features three allophones of /v/ (the latter two sometimes also occurring for /l/ ): before vowels, it is [ʋ] , after a vowel it is [w] , and between a syllable boundary and a voiceless consonant, it is [ʍ] (Template:Harvcoltxt ).
↑ Some scholars have found that vowel length in Standard Slovene is no longer distinctive, (Template:Harvcoltxt , Tatjana Srebot-Rejec. "On the vowel system in present-day Slovene" (PDF) . , Template:Harvcoltxt ) and the only differences in vowel length are that the stressed vowels are longer than the unstressed ones,(Tatjana Srebot-Rejec. "On the vowel system in present-day Slovene" (PDF) . , Template:Harvcoltxt ) with stressed open syllables longer than stressed closed syllables (Tatjana Srebot-Rejec. "On the vowel system in present-day Slovene" (PDF) . ).
↑ Tonic marks are not part of the orthography but are found in dictionaries such as "Slovenski pravopis 2001" . Tone marks can also be found on Template:Angbr , which signifies the sequence /ər/ .
↑ 7,0 7,1 Wherever possible, one should transcribe Slovene with both tonic and stress marks. If the correct tones are unknown, it is acceptable to put only a stress-based transcription.[this is clearly not the current practice as there are only a few transcriptions that indicate tone ]
↑ /ý/ appears only in loanwords and is often replaced by /í/ .