- [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. A
diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-), also
known as a
gliding vowel or a...
-
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...
- 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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length are distinguished, and
there are a
range of
diphthongs,
although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible.
Finnish belongs to the
Finnic branch...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters.
English diphthongs have
undergone many
changes since the Old and
Middle English periods....
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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...
-
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...
-
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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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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refers to
quantity or
diphthongization (−1=short, −2=long, −3=short but
lengthened early in the
history of Yiddish, −4=
diphthong, −5=special
length occurring...
