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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 Template:IPA 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	bob	bob
d	dan	done
dz	brivec brije^[1]	heads
dʒ	džez	George
f	film	film
ɡ	gora	gore
ɣ	vrh drevesa^[1]	Spanish rasgo
j	jaz^[2]	yaw
k	kolo, brlog	cola
l	luka^[2]	Luke
m	morje, Istanbul^[3]	more
ɱ	simfonija, informacija^[3]	comfort
n	ne^[3]^[2]	no
ŋ	banka^[3]	bank
p	pet, bob	pet
ɾ	robot	US atom
s	stol, džez	stole
ʃ	šum	shell
t	ti, pred	tattoo
ts	car	shorts
tʃ	čaj	church
v	filozof Dolar^[1]	van
ʋ	voda	van
w	cerkev^[4]	we
ʍ	vsi^[4]	white (without whine-wine merger) or twice
x	harfa	Scottish loch
z	zima	zoo
ʒ	žaba	fusion

Combinations of vowels and tone^[5]
Low tone (or "rising") vowels
IPA	Stress orth.	Tonal orth.^[6]^[7]	Examples	nearest English equivalent
àː	á		danes	father
ɛ̀ː	ê	é	zemlja	British square
èː	é	ẹ́	cerkev	late
ə̀	è	ə̀	sem (stressed)	about
ə̀ɾ	ŕ		vrba	US verb (but trilled)
ìː	í		hiša	least
ɔ̀ː	ô	ó	poten	dog
òː	ó	ọ́	erotičen	story
ùː	ú		truplo	scoop
High tone (or "falling") vowels
á	à	ȁ	brat	strut
áː	á	ȃ	grad	father
ɛ́	è	ȅ	met	let
ɛ́ː	ê	ȇ	adverb	British square
éː	é	ẹ̑	kreda	late
ə́	è	ə̏	pes	about
ə́ɾ	ŕ	ȓ	tržnica	US verb (but trilled)
í	ì	ȉ	bik	list
íː	í	ȋ	list	least
ɔ́	ò	ȍ	on	off
ɔ́ː	ô	ȏ	alkova	dog
óː	ó	ọ̑	pot	story
ú	ù	ȕ	kruh	foot
úː	ú	ȗ	romunščina	scoop
ý	ǜ	ü̏	Türk^[8]	somewhat like cute
Unstressed vowels
a	a		žena	father (but shorter)
ɛ	e	e	medved	let
ə	e	ə	danes	about
əɾ	er, r	ər, r	koder, potrditi	US verb (but trilled)
i	i		biti	list
ɔ	o		potok	lot
u	u		mamut	foot
Stress^[7]
IPA	Stress orth.	Tonal orth.	Example	Explanation
ˈ	N/A		[ˈsə̀m]	primary stress

Notes

Sources

Herrity, Peter (2000), Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-23148-5
Pretnar, Tone; Tokarz, Emil (1980), Slovenščina za Poljake: Kurs podstawowy języka słoweńskiego (in Polish), Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski
Srebot-Rejec, Tatjana (1988), "Word Accent and Vowel Duration in Standard Slovene: An Acoustic and Linguistic Investigation", Slavistische Beiträge, 226, Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, ISBN 3-87690-395-5
Šuštaršič, Rastislav; Komar, Smiljana; Petek, Bojan (1999), "Slovene", Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 135–139, doi:10.1017/S0025100300004874, ISBN 0-521-65236-7

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