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
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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.
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abcdMany speakers in Croatia and some in Bosnia make no distinction between /tɕ/ and /tʃ/ (⟨ć⟩ and ⟨č⟩) or between /dʑ/ and /dʒ/ (⟨đ⟩ and ⟨dž⟩); among such speakers, these are pronounced [tʃ] and [dʒ] respectively.
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abcd/ʃ/, /tʃ/, /ʒ/ and /dʒ/ are sometimes transcribed as [
ʂ, [
tʂ, [
ʐ and [
dʐ, respectively. The fricatives /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ may be realized [
ɕ or [
ʑ before /tɕ/ or /dʑ/.
^/v/ does not behave as a fricative in that it does not devoice to [f] before a voiceless consonant, nor does it cause preceding voiceless consonants to become voiced.
^Some articles may use the stress mark, [ˈe], 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.