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Meaning of "diphthong"

diphthong (noun) - a complex speech sound or gliding vowel that begins with one vowel sound and gradually changes to another within the same syllable, as in coin, loud, and side
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  • A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
  • A vowel digraph or ligature.

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But ie is a diphthong and there are no combinations ię and iė.
Where and there often become a diphthong.
A diphthong is a more complex vowel sound.
It turns the o into a diphthong see below.
The ß remains if it is preceded by a long vowel or a diphthong.
Articulation of the rising diphthong iu as falling.
It is heavy by nature if it contains a long vowel or a diphthong.
A diphthong is a group of two vowels.
Syllables either contain a single vowel and or a diphthong.
Diphthong is the combination sound of two vowels in one syllable.
Two vowels together are called a diphthong.
The diphthong is preserved.
The sequence was unstable and was turned into a diphthong.
The diphthong ou was denoted.
She was trying to raise me diphthong.

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Untermann observed that the diphthong ui could only be found in the first cluster.
Kennet without the diphthong.
Lithuanian diphthong uo corresponds to Latin ō.
You dipped your diphthong.
This diphthong has been reduced to the monophthong in many dialects of modern Portuguese.
Monophthongization or smoothing is a vowel shift in which a diphthong becomes a monophthong.
This diphthong is preserved in Old Gutnish and survives in modern Gutnish.
The notes are given a representative consonant and vowel or diphthong.
Let us look at another vowel sound called diphthong also pronounced diphthong.
The second vowel of the stressed syllable produces a diphthong.
Noun The reduction of a diphthong to a single sound.
Verb stems may never end in a long vowel or a diphthong.
Generally in Latin each vowel or diphthong belongs to a single syllable.
The nasal consonant may also become an element of the diphthong.
The Old Latin diphthong and the sequence became Classical.
Height harmonic diphthong.
If the last diphthong finishes a word, it is spelt aw.
One kind of long syllable is one containing a long vowel or a diphthong.
UE is a diphthong.
The grave accent is used to indicate the vowel sequence is not a diphthong.
A diphthong is a vowel which changes quality as it 's being pronounced.
This is despite the vowels in the original word being pronounced like a diphthong.
Likewise, the former diphthong ㅔ is read as a single vowel e.
The sound changes discussed here involved at least one phoneme which historically was a diphthong.
I am a total diphthong.
If the diphthong is followed by a neutral vowel, a little flick is added.
An ij in written Dutch usually represents the diphthong.
Only in some dialects, a diphthong may also be followed by a consonant.
Some scholars have considered this sound to have remained as a diphthong in Gothic.
A diphthong is two vowel sounds, one after the other.
Beside monophthongs Māori has many diphthong vowel phonemes.
For example, the diphthong ôi has sometimes been regarded as an additional vowel.
The Western Armenian language has nine diphthong sounds.
Cherokee has only one diphthong native to the language,.
When u and i came in postvocalic positions, the result was a diphthong.

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