Appendix:Old Church Slavonic pronunciation

See Old Church Slavonic at Wikipedia for a thorough look at the sounds of Old Church Slavonic.

Consonants

IPA	Examples	English approximation
b	баба	box
d̪	добръ	dust
d̪͡z̪	ѕвѣꙁда	birds
ɡ	глаголати	good
k	кꙋпити	school
ɫ̪	лѫкъ	light
ɫ̩	влькъ	little
ʎ	любити	million
m	мати	marine
n̪	надєжда	north
ɲ	чрѣшьнꙗ	canyon
p	пѧть	speak
r	работа	as in rather, but trilled
rʲ	мор҄є	more yaks, but with a trilled "r"
r̩	тръгъ, крьстъ	water (American English)
s̪	словѣнинъ	salt
ʃ	шлємъ	sugar
t̪	трꙋдъ	style
t̪͡s̪	цвѣтъ	bats
t͡ʃ	чаша	cheese
v	вѣра	view
x	Христъ	loch (Scottish English)
z̪	ꙁємлꙗ	zoo
ʒ	жѫтва	pleasure

Marginal consonants

IPA	Examples	English approximation
f	фараѡнъ	pharaoh
θ (hypothetical)	страѳокамиль	thing

Vowels

IPA	Examples	English approximation
ɑ	анъгєлъ	father
æ	лѣто	as
ʊ	ѫгълъ	foot
ʊ̆	ѫгълъ	foot (but shorter)
ɛ	єѵанъгєльѥ	edge
ɛ̃	мѣсѧць	men
i	тоци	police
ɪ	съмрьть	bit
ɪ̆	съмрьть	bit (but shorter)
ɔ	обраꙁъ	off
ɔ̃	съвѫꙁъ	online
u	оутро, Їисꙋсъ	pool
ɨ ~ ɯ	мꙑслити	foot (but unrounded)

Iotified vowels

IPA	Examples	English approximation
jɑ	ꙗсти	yard
jɛ	ѥсмь	yes
jɛ̃	ѩꙁꙑкъ	yen
jɪ	наімъ	yin and yan
jɪ̆	ігра	yin and yang (but shorter)
ji	Їѡанъ	yield
jɔ̃	съѭꙁъ	yonder
ju	югъ	unity

Marginal vowels

IPA	Examples	French approximation
y (hypothetical)	Анъкѷра	u

Other symbols

IPA	Description
◌ʲ	Palatalization of the preceding consonant
◌̪	Dental articulation of the consonant
◌̩	Consonant in syllabic position
◌̃	Nasal articulation of the vowel
◌̆	Ultrashort articulation of the vowel

References

• Todd B. Krause, Jonathan Slocum (2023 August 10 (last accessed)) “The Sound System”, in Old Church Slavonic Online‎^[1], The University of Texas at Austin
• David Huntley (1993) “Old Church Slavonic”, in Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett, editors, The Slavonic Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, Phonology, pages 126–134