This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Slovene language.
Consonants[]
Slovene has 21 distinctive consonant phonemes.
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Postalveolar | Dorsal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | ||
| voiced | dʒ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x |
| voiced | z | ʒ | |||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | ||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||
Vowels[]
Slovene has an eight-vowel (according to Peter Jurgec nine-vowel) system, in comparison to the five-vowel system of Serbo-Croatian.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | (ʌ) | ɔ |
| Open | a |