This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Slovak language.
Vowels[]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | u | uː |
| Mid | ɛ | ɛː | ɔ | ɔː |
| Open | æ | æː | a | aː |
Consonants[]
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | n | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | ||||
| voiced | dz | dʒ | |||||
| Continuant | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | ||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | j | ɣ | ɦ | |
| Lateral | plain | l | ʎ | ʟ | |||
| geminated | lː | ||||||
| Tap | ⱱ | r | |||||
| Trill | ʙ | rː | |||||