SAMPA for Croatian (original) (raw)

Note: in the representation of Croatian orthography shown below,

• c' stands for c with an acute accent;
• d' stands for a barred d;
• c^ s^ z^ stand for c s z with a wedge accent (hacek).

SAMPA symbol Orthography Transcription Gloss

Vowels. There are five vowels in Croatian. Additionally, r can function as a vowel.

i sir "sir cheese e pet "pe:t five a sat "sa:t watch o bol "bo:l pain u put "pu:t way r prst "prst finger

Consonants. The Croatian consonant system comprises 17 obstruents and 7 sonorant phonemes.

p pas "pas dog b bas "bas base t tip "ti:p type d dan "da:n day k kap "ka:p drop g gol "go:l naked

ts cura "tsura girl tS c^ar "tSa:r thrill dZ dz^ep "dZep pocket tS' noc' "no:tS' night dZ' d'ak "dZ'a:k pupil

f fonetika fo"ne-Rtika phonetics s sat "sa:t hour z zid "zi:d wall S s^ef "Se:f chief Z z^ena "Zena woman x hod "xo:d walking

m most "mo:st bridge n noga "noga leg J njiva "Jiva field l lud "lu:d mad L ljut "Lu:t bitter r ruka "ru:ka hand

v\ vid "v\i:d sight j ja "ja: I

Conventions (Assimilation). Phonemes in contact can be assimilated and pronounced as allophonic variants. Some of these allophonic variants can be regarded as the neutral realizations of some other phoneme (for example, replacement of voiced obstruents by their voiceless counterparts and vice versa). Such cases are not exemplified here. We exemplify those allophones which are different from neutral realizations of Croatian phonemes.

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f v s^ef bi "Se:vbi boss would ts dz zec bi "ze:dzbi rabbit would h G dah bi "daGbi breath would S S' mis^ c'e "miS'tS'e mouse will Z Z' ruz^ d'ine "ru:Z'"dZ'ine Gina's lipstick m F tramvaj "traFv\aj tram n N banka "baNka bank

Stress and Accent. There are two word tones in Croatian: -F, -R. Accented vowels can be short or long. The intersection of tones and lengths in accented syllables results in four word accents. They are not shown in orthography.

long fall pas "pa:s belt short fall pas "pas dog long rise ruka "ru:ka hand short rise noga "noga leg

Unstressed syllables preceding the stressed one are always short while syllables following the unstressed one can be short or long.

short unstr. noga "noga leg long unstr. noga "no:ga: legs (gen.)

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