Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Serbo-Croatian (the Croatian and Serbian standards thereof) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

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 Wikipedia 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 value without establishing consensus on the talk page first. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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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 English approximation Latin Cyrillic b bob боб bob d dan дан doom dʑ đak[1] ђак jeep (Alveolo-palatal) dʒ džep[1][2] џeп just f film филм film ɡ gore горе gorgeous j ja ја yaw k kola кола score l Luka Лука fill ʎ bilje биље million m more море more ɱ informacija информација comfort n ne не no ŋ banka банка bank ɲ konj коњ canyon p pet пет space r robot робот trilled r, like in Spanish s stol стол stole ʃ šuma[2] шума shell t tata тата star tɕ ćup[1] ћуп cheap (Alveolo-palatal) ts ribica рибица shorts tʃ čekić[1][2] чекић choose v voda[3] вода between vet and wet x hir хир Scottish loch z zima зима zoo ʒ žaba[2] жаба treasure Vowels IPA Example English approximation Latin Cyrillic a rad рад between fat and father[4] e let лет let i list лист least o more море more u trup труп tool l̩ bicikl бицикл little n̩ njutn њутн burden r̩ vrba врба US verb, but trilled Tone and vowel length Tonic marks are not normally written but are found in dictionaries.[5] IPA Example Explanation Latin Cyrillic e sezóna сезо́на non-tonic short vowel eː ùzēti у̀зе̄ти non-tonic long vowel[6] ě djèca дјѐца short vowel with rising tone ěː kréda кре́да long vowel with rising tone ê sjȅme сјȅме short vowel with falling tone êː rȇp рȇп long vowel with falling tone