Appendix:Slovene pronunciation

The charts below show how Slovene words are pronounced and how this is represented in Wiktionary.

Accent and tone marks are not part of standard orthography, but are found in dictionaries and other reference works. The vowel spellings are shown here in standard orthography, stress-based diacritic orthography, and tonal diacritic orthography, respectively. Other symbols that are not used in standard orthography, but are included in some reference works, are placed in parentheses. Tonal symbols, as well as the symbols in parentheses, are used in Wiktionary entries. See About Slovene for more details.

English approximations are in some cases very loose, and only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. See Slovene phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds.

Tones
When both a low/rising and high/falling tone are possible on a vowel, the macron is used. Thus, ā stands for both ȃ and á, while ə̄ stands for both ə̏ and ə̀.

The following tables show the possible combinations of tone/length and vowel quality, given in the three representations used in Wiktionary entries: