- A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ/ DIF-thong or /ˈdɪpθɒŋ/ DIP-thong; from Gr****: δίφθογγος, diphthongos,
literally "double sound" or "double tone"; from δίς "twice"...
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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 in some
dialects /ø/ – than in
unstressed ones – /ɑ e u/. It had
diphthongs that no
longer exist in
Modern English,
which were /io̯ eo̯ æɑ̯/, with...
- linguistics,
vowel breaking,
vowel fracture, or
diphthongization is the
sound change of a
monophthong into a
diphthong or triphthong.
Vowel breaking may be unconditioned...
- from the
letters a and e,
originally a
ligature representing the
Latin diphthong ae. It has been
promoted to the full
status of a
letter in some languages...
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before (the
boundary corresponding roughly to the
monophthongization of
diphthongs, and the
Slavic second palatalization) use the
common Balto-Slavic notation...
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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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English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods. The
sound changes discussed here
involved at
least one phoneme...
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Monophthongization is a
sound change by
which a
diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of
vowel shift. In
languages that have
undergone monophthongization...
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called a pure vowel. The
conversions of
monophthongs to
diphthongs (
diphthongization), and of
diphthongs to
monophthongs (monophthongization), are
major elements...