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Combination of two adjacent vowel sounds
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-), also known as a gliding vowel or a
Diphthong
Greek long vowels written as diphthongs
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
Spurious_diphthong
Vowel sound change
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
Monophthongization
Ninth letter of the Latin alphabet
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
I
of English diphthongs comprises sound changes to phonemes that have historically been diphthongs in the English language. English diphthongs have undergone
Phonological history of English diphthongs
Phonological_history_of_English_diphthongs
Sound change
the sound change of a triphthong to a smaller unit of sound; either a diphthong or pure vowel. In the latter case, smoothing is sometimes referred to
Triphthong_smoothing
Twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet
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
Y
Pronunciation and sounds of Old English
short diphthongs and leaving long diphthongs unmarked (since the 'long' diphthongs in fact have the same length as original Germanic diphthongs). For
Old_English_phonology
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
Monophthongization of diphthongs in Proto-Slavic
Monophthongization_of_diphthongs_in_Proto-Slavic
Process by which monophthongs become diphthongs and triphthongs
linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be unconditioned
Vowel_breaking
Ligature of the Latin letters A and E
character. It is a ligature of a and e, originally representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages,
Æ
System for writing in Spanish
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
Spanish_orthography
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels
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
Vowel_hiatus
Tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
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
Yodh
Standard accent for British English
slightly diphthongized, and are often narrowly transcribed in phonetic literature as diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. The starting point of the diphthongal /uː/
Received_Pronunciation
developed into diphthongs of a generally less common type in which both elements are of the same height, called height-harmonic diphthongs. This process
Phonological history of Old English
Phonological_history_of_Old_English
Mark that indicates separation of vowels
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
Diaeresis_(diacritic)
Proto-language of all the Slavic languages
before (the boundary corresponding roughly to the monophthongization of diphthongs, and the Slavic second palatalization) use the common Balto-Slavic notation
Proto-Slavic_language
Ligature of the Latin letters O and E
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
Œ
Concepts in poetic meter
dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation of the two vowels in a diphthong for the sake of meter, and a division between feet that corresponds to
Diaeresis_(prosody)
pitch accent to a stress accent system, and the monophthongization of diphthongs (except αυ and ευ). Those changes seem widely attested from the 2nd century
Koine_Greek_phonology
Latin letter I with dieresis
vowels are pronounced in separate syllables, rather than together as a diphthong or digraph. For example, French maïs (IPA: [ma.is] ; "maize"); without
Ï
Phrase used in elocution
phrase used in elocution teaching since at least 1926 to demonstrate the diphthong /aʊ/. Bagley, Louie: "Elocution do's and dont's", Frederick A. Stokes
How_now_brown_cow
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
and /u/, the normal diphthongs, and the long vowel /aː/ occur generally. The other long vowels occur only in the context of diphthong simplification (below)
Northern_Sámi
Theoretical smallest unit of timing
the case of a short vowel, and two morae in the case of a long vowel or diphthong. Consonants serving as syllable nuclei also represent one mora if short
Mora_(linguistics)
Transitional phoneme produced like a vowel but used like a syllable boundary
in a diphthong [flai̯] or as a closed syllable ending in a consonant [flaj]. It is unusual for a language to contrast a semivowel and a diphthong containing
Semivowel
Finnic language
length are distinguished, and there are a range of diphthongs, although vowel harmony limits which diphthongs are possible. Finnish belongs to the Finnic branch
Finnish_language
Fifteenth letter of the Latin alphabet
"short" pronunciations. The "long" ⟨o⟩ as in boat is actually most often a diphthong /oʊ/ (realized dialectically anywhere from [o] to [əʊ]). In English, there
O
Papuan language spoken in Southeast Asia
It uses the Latin writing system. The language features monophthong, diphthong, and triphthong vowels. Waris is spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla
Waris_language
Latin letter A with acute accent
words with irregular stress patterns. It can also be used to "break up" a diphthong or to avoid what would otherwise be homonyms, although this does not happen
Á
Sounds and pronunciation of the Romanian language
interjections or recent borrowings. Romanian includes the two unusual diphthongs /e̯a/ and /o̯a/ and the central vowel /ɨ/. There are seven monophthongs:
Romanian_phonology
West Germanic language spoken by Ashkenazis
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
Yiddish
Pure vowel sound
The processes by which monophthongs develop into diphthongs (diphthongization), and by which diphthongs simplify into monophthongs (monophthongization)
Monophthong
West Germanic language
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
English_language
Marks added to letters in Greek
hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiˈðaca/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðaca/, "little
Greek_diacritics
Irregular verbs in the Spanish language
an i which is not part of a diphthong, taking into account that diphthongizing overrides vowel raising. For diphthongizing verbs (e.g. dormir, sentir)
Spanish_irregular_verbs
Pronunciation change in English between 1350 and 1700
with diphthongs, but not the same diphthongs as in Modern English. Scholars agree that the Middle English close vowels /iː uː/ became diphthongs around
Great_Vowel_Shift
Dialect of Low German
to [u]. Pronunciation of certain vowels and diphthongs varies from some speakers to others; the diphthong represented by ee for instances is pronounced
Plautdietsch
Yeo (letter: ㅕ; name: 여) is a diphthong of the Korean hangul alphabet, representing the sound [jʌ] as described by the IPA. "Korean". Omniglot. Retrieved
Yeo_(hangul)
Rendering Greek in Latin characters
modern scholarly transliteration now usually renders ⟨κ⟩ as ⟨k⟩ and the diphthongs ⟨αι, οι, ει, ου⟩ as ⟨ai, oi, ei, ou⟩. "Greeklish" has also spread within
Romanization_of_Greek
Dialect of Welsh
("the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit"). The diphthong ae is changed in the same way: This is a diphthong which varies in pronunciation over the Gwenhwyseg
Gwenhwyseg
Technical language based on Neo-Latin
c before i or e pronounced as ch). Every vowel is pronounced, except diphthongs, which are treated as single long vowels. In classical Latin words of
Botanical_Latin
Topics referred to by the same term
diëresis) may refer to: Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a
Diaeresis
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be considered a diphthong. The sequences sometimes did not represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also represented a sequence
Latin
Dialect of Greek in the ancient world
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
Koine_Greek
Accent in Lithuanian phonology
long) syllables include those containing: long vowels (monophthongs) diphthongs (/aw aj ɛj uj/) which end in a glide (/j/ or /w/) closed syllables ending
Lithuanian_accentuation
Duration of a vowel sound
Morphological treatment of diphthongs is essentially similar to long vowels. Some old Finnish long vowels have developed into diphthongs, but successive layers
Vowel_length
West Germanic language of the High and Late Middle Ages
and diphthongs cannot be clearly distinguished in Middle Dutch, as many long vowels had or developed a diphthongal quality, while existing diphthongs could
Middle_Dutch
include: diphthongal realisation of /iː/ and /uː/, for example beat [ˈbɪiʔ], boot [ˈbʊʉʔ] (this can also be a monophthong: [bʉːʔ]) diphthongal realisation
English language in Southern England
English_language_in_Southern_England
English as spoken in Barbados
best identified as an allophone of this phoneme, thus /ˈhapiː/. The FACE diphthong /eɪ/ varies by region and education/class: it manifests in educated speech
Bajan_English
Sound system of the Occitan language
of Provençal (though not in Niçard), the stressed diphthong /aw/ ⟨au⟩ becomes the unstressed diphthong [ɔw] ⟨au⟩. For instance (stress underlined): sauta
Occitan_phonology
Vowel sound represented by ⟨y⟩ in IPA
little later, the diphthong /yi/ when not before another vowel monophthongized and merged with long /yː/. In Koine Greek, the diphthong /oi/ changed to
Close_front_rounded_vowel
Austroasiatic language
(or monophthongs) and centering diphthongs, Vietnamese has closing diphthongs and triphthongs. The closing diphthongs and triphthongs consist of a main
Vietnamese_language
Sounds and pronunciation of Ancient Greek
many diphthongs, all falling diphthongs with /i u/ as the second semivocalic element, and either with a short or long first element. Diphthongs with a
Ancient_Greek_phonology
Allophonic rule of vowels prominent in Canada, also found in N. American English dialects
English diphthong raising) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with
Canadian_raising
Ancestor of the Finnic languages
of a vowel and syllable-final semivowel *j or *w are reinterpreted as diphthongs: *aj > *ai, *aw > *au etc. Consequently, these consonants can no longer
Proto-Finnic_language
Orthography of the Slovak language
rising-opening diphthong [ɪe], similar to the /jɛ/ sequence in English (as in yes /jɛs/); ⟨iu⟩, which stands for the rising-backing diphthong [ɪu], similar
Slovak_orthography
Central Asian dish
transcribed as "palao", "palaw", "palau", etc to reflect the Classical diphthong /aw/, which is preserved in Dari, and is otherwise often transcribed "polow"
Kabuli_pulao
Ancient Greek dialect group
(written ει: spurious diphthong). PIE *trey-es → Proto-Greek trees → Attic trēs = (τρεῖς), "three" e + o → ō (written ου: spurious diphthong). early *genes-os
Attic_Greek
Phonetic changes in the French language
dissimilation of the diphthong [ei̯] to [oi̯]) [mweˈtje] (12th-13th century AD, Late Old French: replacement of falling diphthongs with rising diphthongs) [mwɛˈtje]
Phonological history of French
Phonological_history_of_French
Latin-script digraph
sometimes slightly kerned. An ij in written Dutch usually represents the diphthong [ɛi], similar to the pronunciation of ⟨ay⟩ in "pay", and is preserved
IJ_(digraph)
e.g. Gael /ɡeːlˠ/ "a Gael". In Latin, ⟨ae⟩ originally represented the diphthong /ae/, before it was monophthongized in the Vulgar Latin period to /ɛ/;
List_of_Latin-script_digraphs
Dialect of English
features may be summarized as follows: /l/-vocalization /t/-glottalization Diphthong shift Yod-coalescence Other distinguishing features have been suggested
Estuary_English
Latin letter A with macron
in some orthography-based transcriptions of English to represent the diphthong /eɪ/ (see Vowel length § Traditional long and short vowels in English
Ā
Standard pronunciation of the German language
German long vowels changed to diphthongs. Most Upper German dialects retain the diphthongs. A remnant of their former diphthong character is shown when [iː]
Standard_German_phonology
Phonological system of the Hawaiian language
vowel phonemes, depending on how long vowels and diphthongs are analyzed. If the long vowels and diphthongs are treated as two-phoneme sequences, the total
Hawaiian_phonology
Perceived longer vowel sounds and diphthongs in speech
spoken English and generally indicates slower, longer vowel sounds and diphthongs. The drawl is often perceived as a method of speaking more slowly and
Drawl
How Ancient Greek terms are pronounced when taught
spiritus asper as /h/ and the pronunciation of β, γ and δ as plosives and of diphthongs as such. However, there is often no mention of the ancient aspirate pronunciations
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching
Pronunciation_of_Ancient_Greek_in_teaching
Sound changes
rather than diphthongs. West Saxon ceald; but Anglian cald > ModE cold. Diphthong height harmonization: The height of one element of each diphthong is adjusted
Phonological history of English
Phonological_history_of_English
Rules for writing the Welsh language
when y is preceded or followed by g /ɡ/ or followed by w /u/, forming a diphthong."Morffoleg y Gymraeg". Geiriadur yr Academi. Bangor University. Retrieved
Welsh_orthography
Vowel sound represented by ⟨o⟩ in IPA
vowel modified by endolabialization), but this could be misread as a diphthong. In English, the symbol ⟨o⟩ is typically associated with the vowel in
Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel
Vowel sound represented by ⟨i⟩ in IPA
/iː/) and is not normally pronounced as a pure vowel (it is a slight diphthong), some dialects have been reported to pronounce the phoneme as a pure
Close_front_unrounded_vowel
a diphthong in Latin, or in the Latin transliteration of Greek: ā, cā, scā, scrā (a long vowel) or æ, cæ, scæ, scræ (a diphthong). Latin diphthongs may
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
Traditional_English_pronunciation_of_Latin
Sounds and pronunciation of Portuguese
pronounced both as rising diphthongs or hiatus. In these and other cases, other diphthongs, diphthong-hiatus or hiatus-diphthong combinations might exist
Portuguese_phonology
Latvian dialect of the Curonian Spit
include syllable structure, stress patterns, pitch accent, vowel behavior, diphthong dynamics, and consonantal shifts. Kursenieki syllables are typically closed
Kursenieki_language
Dialect of English spoken in London
correspond to relatively less diphthongal /iː/ and /uː/ in traditional RP. /æj, ɑj, oj/ correspond to /eɪ, aɪ, ɔɪ/ in RP. The diphthong offsets are only fully
Cockney
Diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography
diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an /h/ sound before a vowel, diphthong, or after rho. It remained in the polytonic orthography even after the
Rough_breathing
Turkic language
contains the digraphs ov and öv to represent diphthongs present in the language, and the pronunciation of diphthongs is today accepted as the norm in the orthophony
Azerbaijani_language
Oldest widely attested Gaelic language
monophthongs and diphthongs. Short diphthongs were monomoraic, taking up the same amount of time as short vowels, while long diphthongs were bimoraic, the
Old_Irish
Austronesian language
diphthongs. However, [ai] and [au] can only occur in open syllables, such as cukai ("excise") and pulau ("island"). Words with a phonetic diphthong in
Malay_language
Phonology of the Dutch language
øː, oː/ are included in one of the diphthong charts below because Northern Standard Dutch realises them as diphthongs, but they behave phonologically like
Dutch_phonology
Spelling system developed by Veldeke Limburg
The Spelling 2003 for the Limburgian dialects, also known as Veldeke-spelling, is a spelling system developed by Veldeke Limburg, a dialect association
Spelling 2003 for the Limburgian dialects
Spelling_2003_for_the_Limburgian_dialects
Alphabet and spelling
other Western European languages can be helpful. A full list of sounds, diphthongs, and their main spellings is given at Portuguese phonology. This article
Portuguese_orthography
Branch of Baltic languages
West Baltic languages generally conserved the following features: the diphthong *ei (e.g. deiws 'god', (acc) deinan 'day'), palatalized consonants /kʲ/
West_Baltic_languages
Sixth letter of many Semitic alphabets
/oː/ in many dialects, as a result of the monophthongization that the diphthong /aw/ underwent in most of words. Part of the sequence /aw/. In this case
Waw_(letter)
Sound system of Australian English
monophthongs and diphthongs, mostly correspond to the tense vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation (RP) as well as its centring diphthongs. The short
Australian_English_phonology
Sound system of Spanish
Spanish has falling diphthongs that end in [j] or [w], and rising diphthongs that start with [j] or [w]. While many diphthongs are historically the result
Spanish_phonology
Vowel sandhi process
'blending') is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two (univerbation). Crasis
Crasis
Mark used in Arabic-based orthographies
alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language. Derived from the
Hamza
turn /iː/ into a diphthong, and the monophthongal [iː] is in free variation with the diphthongal [ɪi ~ əi] (with the former diphthong being the same as
Phonological history of English close front vowels
Phonological_history_of_English_close_front_vowels
Language family
features in common with other Italic languages: The late Indo-European diphthong /*eu/ evolved into ou. The late Indo-European /*ə/ from vocalic laryngeals
Latino-Faliscan_languages
System of sounds of the Finnish language
below lists the conventionally postulated diphthongs in Finnish. In speech (i.e. phonetically speaking) a diphthong does not sound like a sequence of two
Finnish_phonology
System of sounds for the Afrikaans language
inventory consisting of 17 vowel phonemes, including 10 monophthongs and 7 diphthongs. There are also 7 marginal monophthongs. /y/ tends to be merged with /i/
Afrikaans_phonology
Branch of the Indo-European language family
The diphthong /æa/ is written ea; /eo/ is written eo; /iu/ is written io; and /iy/ is written ie. All diphthongs umlaut to /iy/ ie. All diphthongs occur
Germanic_languages
Sounds and pronunciation of Malay including Indonesian
with the epenthesized [ʔ]. This applies to when the stem ends in the diphthongs /au̯, ai̯, oi̯/ as well so a word like pakaian 'clothes' (< pakai 'to
Malay_phonology
Dialect of Limburgish spoken in Hasselt, Belgium
consonants, the long monophthongs /uː, øː, œː/ and the diphthongs /ej, ow/ are realized as centering diphthongs [uə, øə, œə, eə, oə]. In the case of /ej/, this
Hasselt_dialect
Finnic language spoken in South Estonia
(present in Kihnu) Diphthongization of long vowels ää, õõ retained e.g. pää 'head' ää, õõ retained e.g. jää 'ice' occasionally diphthongized > ea, õe e.g.
South_Estonian
Oïl language of Anjou, France
gave a diphthong [ei] in the oldest French, but while it evolved into [wa] in the central and eastern French dialects, in the west the diphthong turned
Angevin_dialect
Given name or surname
initial double-L for non-Welsh speakers and the translation of the Welsh diphthong wy. Lloyd is the most common form of the name encountered in the modern
Lloyd_(name)
Vowel sound involving motion through 3 vowel qualities
articulator position, diphthongs have two and triphthongs three. Triphthongs are not to be confused with disyllabic sequences of a diphthong followed by a monophthong
Triphthong
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
Girl/Female
Hindu
Life, Immortal
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Sacret Text
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling Musselwhite.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Sweetness
Girl/Female
Biblical
Benevolent, complaisant, pleasing.
Girl/Female
Greek Hebrew English
Peaceful.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Fame
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord Hanumaan; Son of Anjani
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess of wealth or Goddess Laxmi or fortunate or
Boy/Male
Australian, Irish
Small with Dark Hair or Complexion
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG
v. t.
To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.
n.
A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
n.
A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.
n.
A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
a.
Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
a.
Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
n.
A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
a.
Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
n.
A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.
n.
The act of changing into a diphthong.
n.
See Diphthongization.
v. t. & i.
To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.
v. t.
To make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
n.
A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.
n.
A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.