-
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...
- 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...
- are
sometimes called "
proper diphthongs",
while diphthongs with a long
first element are
sometimes called "improper
diphthongs."
Whether they have a long...
- syllables – a
vowel hiatus (also
called a diaeresis) –
rather than a
digraph or
diphthong. It
consists of a two dots
diacritic placed over a letter,
generally a...
- /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...
-
spelled proper names and
their derivations: Guaymas, guaymeño, and also
fraybentino (from Fray
Bentos with
regular usage of ⟨y⟩ in a word-final
diphthong)....
- more
common and [ɛi] is also allowed. In
proper names, ij
often appears instead of i at the end of
other diphthongs,
where it does not
affect the pronunciation:...
-
slightly diphthongized, and are
often narrowly transcribed in
phonetic literature as
diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. The
starting point of the
diphthongal /uː/...
- 'long'
diphthongs /aːu/ and /eːu/, but
these were
treated as two-syllable
sequences of a long
vowel followed by a
short one, not as
proper diphthongs. Old...
- in some orthography-based
transcriptions of
English to
represent the
diphthong /eɪ/ (see
Vowel length § Traditional long and
short vowels in English...
