| bilabial | labio-dental | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | alveolo-palatal | palatal | velar | |
| stop | p, b | t̪, d̪ | k, g | |||||
| trill | r, r̩ | |||||||
| fricative | f | s, z | ʃ, ʒ | x | ||||
| affricate | ts | tʃ, dʒ | tɕ, dʑ | |||||
| nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||
| approximant | ʋ | j | ||||||
| lateral approximant | l | ʎ |
| front | central | back | |
| close | i | u | |
| close-mid | e | o | |
| open | a |
| front | central | back | |
| close | iː | uː | |
| close-mid | eː | oː | |
| open | aː |
/ie/
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Source: Landau, Ernestina; Mijo Lončarić; Damir Horga; and Ivo Škarić. 1995. Croatian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 25.83–86.
Comments: Croatian has distinctive rising and falling pitch contours on short and long stressed syllables. Monosyllabic words always have a falling accent. Falling accents only appear on the first syllable (except for a couple of exclamations); rising accents may appear on any syllable but the last. The description of the syllable structure follows Uzelac, Steven. 1971. Phonological constraints in Serbo-Croatian syllable margins and markedness in generative phonology. MA thesis. Simon Fraser University.
Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)