- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from
Ancient Gr**** δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two...
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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...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
- linguistics,
vowel breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned...
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vowel ⟨e⟩ to ⟨o⟩.
Diphthongs could be
short or long. A
short diphthong had the same
length as a
short single vowel, and a long
diphthong had the same length...
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developed into
diphthongs of a
generally less
common type in
which both
elements are of the same height,
called height-harmonic
diphthongs. This process...
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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...
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classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be
considered a
diphthong. The
sequences sometimes did not
represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also
represented a sequence...
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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...
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vowels as in
Standard English. The
diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/ are
monophthongs [eː] and [oː] or even the
reverse diphthongs [ie] and [uo] (e.g. bay and boat...
