SLOVENIAN ALPHABET AND PRONUNCIATION
The Slovenian alphabet has 25 letters. It does not have the letters W, Q, X, Y. But you have to learn three new letters: È (pronounced as ch in English), © (sh), and ® (zh, as in azure). The mark above the letters is called a carrot, or, in Slovenian, stre¹ica (literally: little roof).
Listen carefully to the following words for pronunciation. If a given letter has several phonetic values, then examples and similar English sounds are given for each.
| Slovenian spelling |
Examples | Similar English sounds |
| A | mama mom | father |
| B | biti to be | to be |
| C | cena price | tse-tse fly |
| È | èokolada chocolate | chocolate |
| D | dan day | day |
| E | cena price teta aunt pes dog |
bed fat the |
| F | fant guy | far |
| G | gara¾a garage | garage |
| H | hi¹a house | Spanish Juan |
| I | vidim I see | see |
| J | jej! eat! | Yankee, hey |
| K | kam where to | kick |
| L | levo left | left |
| M | mama mom | mom |
| N | niè nothing | nothing |
| O | telefon
telephone oèe father |
horn hot |
| P | pot path | path |
| R | ro¾a flower | road |
| S | sedem 7 | seven |
| © | ¹est 6 | shock |
| T | taksi taxi | taxi |
| U | ura hour | soon |
| V | vaza vase | vase |
| Z | zob tooth | zero |
| ® | ¾ena wife | pleasure |
L and V at the end of a word or before another consonant are pronounced like English w:
D and ® together are pronounced like English j:
| Mad¾arska Hungary | Jane |