[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A diphthong (/ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two... 71 KB (6,309 words) - 18:35, 19 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (484 words) - 10:31, 31 December 2023 |
Vowel breaking (redirect from Diphthongization) linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be unconditioned... 16 KB (1,728 words) - 01:37, 13 February 2024 |
/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English diphthongs have undergone many changes since the Old and Middle English periods.... 37 KB (2,536 words) - 02:19, 13 March 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,281 words) - 12:06, 30 April 2024 |
teaching to demonstrate the diphthong /aʊ/. English orthography also uses the homophonic spelling "ou" to represent this diphthong in words like "noun" and... 1 KB (119 words) - 04:17, 7 April 2024 |
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... 83 KB (8,649 words) - 00:25, 25 April 2024 |
Old English phonology (redirect from Diphthong height harmonization) 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... 33 KB (3,167 words) - 14:46, 5 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (860 words) - 01:11, 11 April 2024 |
Phonological history of Old English (redirect from Palatal diphthongization) developed into diphthongs of a generally less common type in which both elements are of the same height, called height-harmonic diphthongs. This process... 83 KB (8,846 words) - 00:19, 8 March 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,196 words) - 18:21, 13 April 2024 |
Latin (section Diphthongs) classical words if ⟨ui⟩ were to be considered a diphthong. The sequences sometimes did not represent diphthongs. ⟨ae⟩ and ⟨oe⟩ also represented a sequence... 104 KB (11,429 words) - 13:45, 1 May 2024 |
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,... 17 KB (1,762 words) - 19:38, 29 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,102 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2024 |
hiatus but occasionally indicates a diphthong: compare modern Greek παϊδάκια (/paiˈðakia/, "lamb chops"), with a diphthong, and παιδάκια (/peˈðakia/, "little... 34 KB (2,737 words) - 16:47, 20 April 2024 |
Proto-Slavic language (redirect from Liquid diphthong) before (the boundary corresponding roughly to the monophthongization of diphthongs, and the Slavic second palatalization) use the common Balto-Slavic notation... 74 KB (7,528 words) - 22:41, 6 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (437 words) - 21:37, 31 January 2024 |
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... 229 KB (23,157 words) - 15:58, 1 May 2024 |
accuracy used as a diphthong in combination with e at the end of some words, as in money, key, valley As non-syllabic [ɪ̯]: in diphthongs at the end of words... 35 KB (3,241 words) - 07:54, 17 April 2024 |
with diphthongs, but not the same diphthongs as in Modern English. Scholars agree that the Middle English close vowels /iː uː/ became diphthongs around... 29 KB (2,820 words) - 21:02, 15 April 2024 |
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... 43 KB (4,896 words) - 16:52, 29 April 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,757 words) - 07:54, 25 March 2024 |
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... 6 KB (440 words) - 22:14, 17 April 2024 |
called a pure vowel. The conversions of monophthongs to diphthongs (diphthongization), and of diphthongs to monophthongs (monophthongization), are major elements... 2 KB (186 words) - 10:30, 31 December 2023 |
Northern Sámi (section Diphthong simplification) 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)... 131 KB (10,360 words) - 18:24, 24 April 2024 |