[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two...

spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek 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...

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...

in RP /iː/ and /uː/ are slightly diphthongized, and are often narrowly transcribed in phonetic literature as diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. Vowels may be phonologically...

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...

teaching to demonstrate the diphthong /aʊ/. English orthography also uses the homophonic spelling "ou" to represent this diphthong in words like "noun" and...

developed into diphthongs of a generally less common type in which both elements are of the same height, called height-harmonic diphthongs. This process...

a result of the monophthongization that the diphthong /aj/ underwent in most words. A part of a diphthong, /aj/. Then, it has no diacritic but could be...

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...

hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiˈðaca/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðaca/, "little...

before (the boundary corresponding roughly to the monophthongization of diphthongs, and the Slavic second palatalization) use the common Balto-Slavic notation...

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...

classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be considered a diphthong. The sequences sometimes did not represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also represented a sequence...

in a diphthong [flaɪ̯] or as a closed syllable ending in a consonant [flaj]. It is unusual for a language to contrast a semivowel and a diphthong containing...

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...

from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages,...

Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally contained the diphthong οι, and in a few non-Greek words. These usages continue in English and...

monophthongs and diphthongs. Monophthongs are produced with a single articulatory movement (hence the prefix mono), while diphthongs feature an articulatory...

Greek of Lesbos. The diphthongs ᾱͅ, ῃ, ῳ /aːi eːi oːi/ were respectively simplified to the long vowels ᾱ, η, ω /aː eː oː/. The diphthongs αι, ει, and οι became...

with diphthongs, but not the same diphthongs as in Modern English. Scholars agree that the Middle English close vowels /iː uː/ became diphthongs around...

close-mid diphthongs, and all of the close-mid diphthongs had been eliminated by late Middle English. The following processes produced the above diphthongs: Reinterpretation...

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...

pronunciation of Persian پلاو [pʰaˈlaw] wherein the sharp diphthong "aw" or /äw/ is preserved. This diphthong should be pronounced closely akin to the English...

where it is pronounced as a falling diphthong, such as cocuy; the word muy may also be pronounced with a raising diphthong. The letter ⟨y⟩ is conserved in...

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...

Monophthongization of diphthongs is a Proto-Slavic sound change in which diphthongs turn into vowels. It is one of the key events in the chronology of...

features may be summarized as follows: /l/-vocalization /t/-glottalization Diphthong shift Yod-coalescence Other distinguishing features have been suggested...

length are distinguished, and there are a range of diphthongs, although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible. Finnish belongs to the Finnic branch...