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.

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
đak ђак jeep (Alveolo-palatal)
ep 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 шума shell
t tata тата star
ćup ћуп cheap (Alveolo-palatal)
ts ribica рибица shorts
čekić чекић choose
v voda вода between vet and wet
x hir хир Scottish loch
z zima зима zoo
ʒ žaba жаба treasure
Vowels
IPA Example English approximation
Latin Cyrillic
a rad рад father
e let лет let
i list лист least
o more море more
u trup труп tool
bicikl бицикл little
njutn њутн burden
vrba врба US verb, but trilled
Tone and vowel length
Tonic marks are not normally written but are found in dictionaries.
IPA Example Explanation
Latin Cyrillic
e sezóna сезо́на non-tonic short vowel
ùzēti у̀зе̄ти non-tonic long vowel
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

Notes

See also

Tags:

Croatian languageInternational Phonetic AlphabetSerbian languageSerbo-CroatianTemplate:IPAWikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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