Translation for '
diphthong' from English to Esperanto
NOUN | a diphthong | diphthongs | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The notes are given a representative consonant and vowel (or diphthong).
- A diphthong is a group of two vowels. The wi diphthong is spoken as ui after sounds of the letters "m" and "p".
- In the Californian vernacular, vowels are either merged or form a diphthong.
- Category 2: 'diphthongs' and 'triphthongs'. In this category, vowels are written together to represent either a diphthong, or what was in Middle Irish a diphthong.
- The closing diphthong [...] remained from the corresponding Old Dutch diphthong.
- When the present has a diphthong (e.g., [...]), the second aorist has the offglide of the diphthong (...).
- A spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong [...] ("ei, ou").
- The sequence [...] in the word [...] is pronounced as an oral diphthong [...] , rather than a nasalized diphthong [...].
- It is unusual for a language to contrast a semivowel and a diphthong containing an equivalent vowel, [...] but Romanian contrasts the diphthong [...] with [...] , a perceptually similar approximant-vowel sequence.
- into a diphthong, and the monophthongal [...] is in free variation with the diphthongal [...] (with the former diphthong being the same as Geordie [...] , the only difference lying in the transcription), particularly word-internally.
- The diphthong "oo" is pronounced as [...] , and the diphthong "eo" is pronounced as [...].
- Lengthening also occurs if the preceding vowel is a close diphthong [...] or [...]. In this case, the diphthong also shortens before the new quantity 3 consonant.
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