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Consonants
IPA	Examples	nearest English equivalent
b	beceli	bob
d	dan	done
dz	brivec brije^[1]	heads
dʒ	džez	George
f	film	film
ɡ	gora	gore
ɣ	vrh drevesa^[1]	Spanish rasgo
j	jaz^[2]	yaw
k	kolo, brlog	cola
l	luka^[2]	Luke
m	morje, Istanbul^[3]	more
ɱ	simfonija, informacija^[3]	comfort
n	ne^[3]^[2]	no
ŋ	banka^[3]	bank
p	pet, bob	pet
ɾ	robot	US atom
s	stol, džez	stole
ʃ	šum	shell
t	ti, pred	tattoo
ts	car	shorts
tʃ	čaj	church
v	filozof^[1]	van
ʋ	voda	van
w	cerkev^[4]	we
ʍ	vsi^[4]	white or twice
x	harfa	Scottish loch
z	zima	zoo
ʒ	žaba	fusion

^ ^a ^b ^c [dz, ɣ, v] are allophones of /ts, x, f/ that occur before voiced consonants (Herrity (2000:16)).
^ ^a ^b ^c Orthographic sequences ⟨lj, nj, rj⟩ are pronounced /lj, nj, rj/ only if a vowel follows; otherwise, the /j/ is not pronounced. For ⟨rj⟩, it is reflected in the orthography, but for ⟨lj, nj⟩ it is not.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Nasals always assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant. Before velar consonants they are [ŋ], and before labial consonants they are [m]; the labiodental [ɱ] appears before /f/ and /ʋ/. Orthographic ⟨n⟩ before ⟨p⟩ and ⟨b⟩ is rare and is confined mostly to loanwords.
^ ^a ^b Standard Slovene features three allophones of /v/ (the latter two sometimes also occurring for /l/): before vowels, it is [ʋ], after a vowel it is [w], and between a syllable boundary and a voiceless consonant, it is [ʍ] (Šuštaršič, Komar & Petek (1999:136)).

[voiced-1] [dz, ɣ, v] are allophones of /ts, x, f/ that occur before voiced consonants (Herrity (2000:16)).

[j-2] Orthographic sequences ⟨lj, nj, rj⟩ are pronounced /lj, nj, rj/ only if a vowel follows; otherwise, the /j/ is not pronounced. For ⟨rj⟩, it is reflected in the orthography, but for ⟨lj, nj⟩ it is not.

[nasal-3] Nasals always assimilate their place of articulation to that of the following consonant. Before velar consonants they are [ŋ], and before labial consonants they are [m]; the labiodental [ɱ] appears before /f/ and /ʋ/. Orthographic ⟨n⟩ before ⟨p⟩ and ⟨b⟩ is rare and is confined mostly to loanwords.

[w-4] Standard Slovene features three allophones of /v/ (the latter two sometimes also occurring for /l/): before vowels, it is [ʋ], after a vowel it is [w], and between a syllable boundary and a voiceless consonant, it is [ʍ] (Šuštaršič, Komar & Petek (1999:136)).

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