- two-syllable
sequences of a long
vowel followed by a
short one, not
proper diphthongs.
Unlike modern English, Old
Saxon was an
inflected language rich in...
-
designate the same
diphthong /ʊi/ (shortened to /u/ in some environments). In both languages, it can also form part of
diphthongs such as ⟨ey⟩ (in both...
- are
sometimes called "
proper diphthongs",
while diphthongs with a long
first element are
sometimes called "improper
diphthongs."
Whether they have a long...
- ****horc, it is
continued as ᛖ eh (properly eoh, but
spelled without the
diphthong to
avoid confusion with ᛇ ēoh "yew"). The Proto-Germanic
vowel system...
- /ɑi/ and /ɔi/ are rare in Dutch. The "long/tense"
diphthongs are
indeed realised as
proper diphthongs but are
generally analysed phonemically as a long/tense...
-
diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to
distinguish from a
digraph or
diphthong. It
consists of a two dots
diacritic placed over a letter,
generally a...
- is
called a
diphthong. Some
languages do not have
diphthongs,
except sometimes in
rapid speech, or they have a
limited number of
diphthongs but also numerous...
-
spelled proper names and
their derivations: Guaymas, guaymeño, and also
fraybentino (from Fray
Bentos with
regular usage of ⟨y⟩ in a word-final
diphthong)....
- the
letter ü to
indicate that a
vowel pair that
would normally form a
diphthong must be
pronounced as
separate syllables (e.g. baül, diürna). Similarly...
- in some orthography-based
transcriptions of
English to
represent the
diphthong /eɪ/ (see
Vowel length § Traditional long and
short vowels in English...
