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voiceless consonants. The
erstwhile monophthongs /iː/ and /uː/ are
diphthongized in many dialects. In many
cases they
might be
better transcribed as...
- (in
Welsh it
diphthongized to /aw/) the
fronting of */a/ to */e/
before */iː/ or */j/ in an old
final syllable (in
Welsh it
diphthongized to /ei/) Other...
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palatalized consonants. In
Quebec French, long
vowels are
generally diphthongized when
followed by a
consonant in the same
syllable (even when a final...
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length are distinguished, and
there are a
range of
diphthongs,
although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible.
Finnish belongs to the
Finnic branch...
-
spurious diphthong (or
false diphthong) is an
Ancient Gr****
vowel that is
etymologically a long
vowel but
written exactly like a true
diphthong ει, ου (ei...
- influences;
dialect differences were also considerable. Long
vowels were
diphthongized.
Eastern Mansi became extinct in 2018, when its last
speaker Maksim...
-
number of
languages diphthongized some of the free vowels,
especially the open-mid
vowels /ɛ ɔ/:
Spanish consistently diphthongized all open-mid vowels...
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called a pure vowel. The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (
diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (monophthongization), are
major elements...
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sound change by
which a
diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of
vowel shift. It is also
known as ungliding, as
diphthongs are also
known as gliding...
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either the
diphthong /aɪ/ ("long" ⟨i⟩) as in kite, the
short /ɪ/ as in bill, or the ⟨ee⟩
sound /iː/ in the last
syllable of machine. The
diphthong /aɪ/ developed...
