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 Translation for 'diphthong' from English to Esperanto
NOUN   a diphthong | diphthongs
ling.
diftongo {noun}
diphthong
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Translation for 'diphthong' from English to Esperanto

diphthong
diftongo {noun}ling.
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Usage Examples English
  • 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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