The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Serbo-Croatian (i.e. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin standards thereof) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
English approximations are in some cases very loose, and only intended to give a general idea of the pronunciation. See Serbo-Croatian phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds.
Tonic marks are not part of the orthography, but are found in dictionaries[2]
e
e
sekunda
non-tonic short vowel
eː
ē
kamen
non-tonic long vowel
ě
è
ekser
short vowel with rising tone
ěː
é
kreda
long vowel with rising tone
ê
ȅ
ekstra
short vowel with falling tone
êː
ȇ
ep
long vowel with falling tone
Notes
↑V is a light fricative, more precisely transcribed [v] or [v̞]. However, it does not behave as a fricative, in that it does not devoice to *[f] before a voiceless consonant, and does not cause preceding voiceless consonants to become voiced.
↑Tone marks can also be found on syllabic consonants, such as [ř̩] and [r̩̂ː]. Some articles may use the stress mark, [ˈe], which could correspond to either of the tonic accents, rising or falling, and are therefore not a complete description.