 Consonants in parentheses are either phonetic/positional variants, idiolect variants, or dialect variants.In the westernmost part of Gottschee, known as the Suchen Plateau (), the phonemes /s/ and /ʃ/ merged to yield /ɕ/ and the phonemes /z/ and /ʒ/ merged to yield /ʑ/.The phoneme /r/ is rarely realized as [ʁ].