voiceless dental sibilant | some |- | style="text-align:center;"| ž | style="text-align:center;"| ж | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced postalveolar fricative | television |- | style="text-align:center;" | š | style="text-align:center;" | ш | style="text-align:center;" | | voiceless postalveolar fricative | sharp |- | style="text-align:center;"| h | style="text-align:center;"| х | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless velar fricative | loch |- ! colspan="6" | affricates |- | style="text-align:center;"| c | style="text-align:center;"| ц | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless dental affricate | pots |- | style="text-align:center;"| dž | style="text-align:center;"| џ | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced postalveolar affricate | as English jam|- | style="text-align:center;"| č | style="text-align:center;"| ч | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless postalveolar affricate | as English check|- | style="text-align:center;"| đ | style="text-align:center;"| ђ | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced alveolo-palatal affricate | roughly jeans|- | style="text-align:center;"| ć | style="text-align:center;"| ћ | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate | roughly cheese|- ! colspan="6" | plosives |- | style="text-align:center;"| b | style="text-align:center;"| б | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced bilabial plosive | book|- | style="text-align:center;"| p | style="text-align:center;"| п | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless bilabial plosive | top|- | style="text-align:center;"| d | style="text-align:center;"| д | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced dental plosive | dog|- | style="text-align:center;"| t | style="text-align:center;"| т | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless dental plosive | stop|- | style="text-align:center;"| g | style="text-align:center;"| г | style="text-align:center;"| | voiced velar plosive | good|- | style="text-align:center;"| k | style="text-align:center;"| к | style="text-align:center;"| | voiceless velar plosive | duck|} In consonant clusters all consonants are either voiced or voiceless. All the consonants are voiced if the last consonant is normally voiced or voiceless if the last consonant is normally voiceless. This rule does not apply to approximantsa consonant cluster may contain voiced approximants and voiceless consonants; as well as to foreign words (Washington would be transcribed as VašinGton), personal names and when consonants are not inside of one syllable. can be syllabic, playing the role of the syllable nucleus in certain words (occasionally, it can even have a long accent). For example, the tongue-twister navrh brda vrba mrda involves four words with syllabic . A similar feature exists in Czech, Slovak, and Macedonian. Very rarely other sonorants can be syllabic, like (in bicikl), (surname Štarklj), (unit njutn), as well as and in slang. Pitch accent Apart from Slovene, Serbo-Croatian is the only Slavic language with a pitch accent (simple tone) system. This feature is present in some other Indo-European languages, such as Norwegian, Ancient Greek, and Punjabi. Neo-Shtokavian Serbo-Croatian, which is used as the