Definition of diphthong in English:

diphthong

noun ˈdɪpθɒŋˈdɪfθɒŋ

1A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side).
二合元音，复合元音（如在coin，loud和side中）。常与MONOPHTHONG , TRIPHTHONG 相对
Often contrasted with monophthong, triphthong
Example sentencesExamples
- The formation of diphthongs from contiguous vowels represents a common prohibition in languages against starting a syllable with a vowel, as opposed to a consonant.
- Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels.
- Most Modern English vowels are diphthongs, so obeying the ‘one sound, one letter’ rule demands either pairing of vowel letters or replacing all our current vowel sounds with the fewer pure sounds, as in Italian and Spanish.
- All Australian accents are regional, and the elongated diphthong, particularly the ‘ooo’, is the immediate giveaway for New South Welshpersons.
- Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
- In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension, but ‘a front vowel sound’ it is definitely not.
- Our role model was our head teacher, Miss Osborne, known as the High Mistress, who flapped about the place in her gown and lapsed into classical Greek pronunciation whenever she used a diphthong.
- Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.
- People in that part of Bolivia have a lot of Quechua and Aymara words in their vocabulary, and ones with final falling-sonority diphthongs are pretty typical.
- For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed.
- The language has a musical quality and employs a great number of diphthongs and other vowel combinations.
- The diphthongs au and ai are pronounced like those in ‘cow’ and ‘sky,’ respectively.
- Few novice teachers addressed vowel r words, more difficult vowel team words such as those with diphthongs having more than one sound, or two-syllable words.
- This was adopted into English and subjected to the normal sound-changes of the late medieval and early modern period: the final - e ceased to be pronounced and the long i became a diphthong.
- The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
- Pupils were asked to read a range of sentences and words, but what we were looking at was the merger of the diphthongs in the words near and square.
1. 1.1 A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat).
  二合元音字母（如在feat中）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones.
  However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong, so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling.
2. 1.2 A compound vowel character; a ligature (such as æ).
  元音连字（如æ）

Usage

For a discussion of the pronunciation of diphthong, see diphtheria

Derivatives

diphthongal

adjective dɪpˈθɒŋɡ(ə)ldɪfˈθɒŋɡl

Thus, ‘bait’ and ‘boat’ are always monophthongs as I say them, but ‘bay’ and ‘low’ may be either monophthongal or slightly diphthongal.
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, there is no attempt to distinguish between the ‘pure’ O of Italian and the diphthongal O of British English, or between the various R sounds of English, French, Spanish, and German.
- They are represented by two letters, one indicating the start of the diphthongal movement, the other indicating its end or general direction.
- Otherwise the dialect is solidly Midland, and aside from Germanisms bears a close affinity with the Philadelphia area, such as in its use of diphthongal long O and long A.
- These three models all crucially contribute to my explanation of variation and changes currently observed in the diphthongal system of Seoul Korean.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- 'twice' + phthongos 'voice, sound'.

Definition of diphthong in US English:

diphthong

noun

1A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side).
二合元音，复合元音（如在coin，loud和side中）。常与MONOPHTHONG , TRIPHTHONG 相对
Often contrasted with monophthong, triphthong
Example sentencesExamples
- Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
- This was adopted into English and subjected to the normal sound-changes of the late medieval and early modern period: the final - e ceased to be pronounced and the long i became a diphthong.
- Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels.
- Most Modern English vowels are diphthongs, so obeying the ‘one sound, one letter’ rule demands either pairing of vowel letters or replacing all our current vowel sounds with the fewer pure sounds, as in Italian and Spanish.
- For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed.
- All Australian accents are regional, and the elongated diphthong, particularly the ‘ooo’, is the immediate giveaway for New South Welshpersons.
- The formation of diphthongs from contiguous vowels represents a common prohibition in languages against starting a syllable with a vowel, as opposed to a consonant.
- Our role model was our head teacher, Miss Osborne, known as the High Mistress, who flapped about the place in her gown and lapsed into classical Greek pronunciation whenever she used a diphthong.
- The language has a musical quality and employs a great number of diphthongs and other vowel combinations.
- Few novice teachers addressed vowel r words, more difficult vowel team words such as those with diphthongs having more than one sound, or two-syllable words.
- In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension, but ‘a front vowel sound’ it is definitely not.
- The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
- People in that part of Bolivia have a lot of Quechua and Aymara words in their vocabulary, and ones with final falling-sonority diphthongs are pretty typical.
- Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.
- Pupils were asked to read a range of sentences and words, but what we were looking at was the merger of the diphthongs in the words near and square.
- The diphthongs au and ai are pronounced like those in ‘cow’ and ‘sky,’ respectively.
1. 1.1 A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat).
  二合元音字母（如在feat中）
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong, so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling.
  The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones.
2. 1.2 A compound vowel character; a ligature (such as æ).
  元音连字（如æ）

Origin

Late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- ‘twice’ + phthongos ‘voice, sound’.

单词	diphthong
释义	Definition of diphthong in English: diphthong noun ˈdɪpθɒŋˈdɪfθɒŋ 1A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side). 二合元音，复合元音（如在coin，loud和side中）。常与MONOPHTHONG , TRIPHTHONG 相对 Often contrasted with monophthong, triphthong Example sentencesExamples The formation of diphthongs from contiguous vowels represents a common prohibition in languages against starting a syllable with a vowel, as opposed to a consonant. Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels. Most Modern English vowels are diphthongs, so obeying the ‘one sound, one letter’ rule demands either pairing of vowel letters or replacing all our current vowel sounds with the fewer pure sounds, as in Italian and Spanish. All Australian accents are regional, and the elongated diphthong, particularly the ‘ooo’, is the immediate giveaway for New South Welshpersons. Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends. In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension, but ‘a front vowel sound’ it is definitely not. Our role model was our head teacher, Miss Osborne, known as the High Mistress, who flapped about the place in her gown and lapsed into classical Greek pronunciation whenever she used a diphthong. Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs. People in that part of Bolivia have a lot of Quechua and Aymara words in their vocabulary, and ones with final falling-sonority diphthongs are pretty typical. For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed. The language has a musical quality and employs a great number of diphthongs and other vowel combinations. The diphthongs au and ai are pronounced like those in ‘cow’ and ‘sky,’ respectively. Few novice teachers addressed vowel r words, more difficult vowel team words such as those with diphthongs having more than one sound, or two-syllable words. This was adopted into English and subjected to the normal sound-changes of the late medieval and early modern period: the final - e ceased to be pronounced and the long i became a diphthong. The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them. Pupils were asked to read a range of sentences and words, but what we were looking at was the merger of the diphthongs in the words near and square. 1.1 A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat). 二合元音字母（如在feat中） Example sentencesExamples The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones. However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong, so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling. 1.2 A compound vowel character; a ligature (such as æ). 元音连字（如æ） Usage For a discussion of the pronunciation of diphthong, see diphtheria Derivatives diphthongal adjective dɪpˈθɒŋɡ(ə)ldɪfˈθɒŋɡl Thus, ‘bait’ and ‘boat’ are always monophthongs as I say them, but ‘bay’ and ‘low’ may be either monophthongal or slightly diphthongal. Example sentencesExamples For example, there is no attempt to distinguish between the ‘pure’ O of Italian and the diphthongal O of British English, or between the various R sounds of English, French, Spanish, and German. They are represented by two letters, one indicating the start of the diphthongal movement, the other indicating its end or general direction. Otherwise the dialect is solidly Midland, and aside from Germanisms bears a close affinity with the Philadelphia area, such as in its use of diphthongal long O and long A. These three models all crucially contribute to my explanation of variation and changes currently observed in the diphthongal system of Seoul Korean. Origin Late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- 'twice' + phthongos 'voice, sound'. Definition of diphthong in US English: diphthong noun 1A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side). 二合元音，复合元音（如在coin，loud和side中）。常与MONOPHTHONG , TRIPHTHONG 相对 Often contrasted with monophthong, triphthong Example sentencesExamples Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends. This was adopted into English and subjected to the normal sound-changes of the late medieval and early modern period: the final - e ceased to be pronounced and the long i became a diphthong. Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels. Most Modern English vowels are diphthongs, so obeying the ‘one sound, one letter’ rule demands either pairing of vowel letters or replacing all our current vowel sounds with the fewer pure sounds, as in Italian and Spanish. For these speakers, the diphthong in fife starts out near the vowel of bud, and ends near the vowel of bade; while the diphthong in five starts near the vowel of hod, and ends nears the vowel of hed. All Australian accents are regional, and the elongated diphthong, particularly the ‘ooo’, is the immediate giveaway for New South Welshpersons. The formation of diphthongs from contiguous vowels represents a common prohibition in languages against starting a syllable with a vowel, as opposed to a consonant. Our role model was our head teacher, Miss Osborne, known as the High Mistress, who flapped about the place in her gown and lapsed into classical Greek pronunciation whenever she used a diphthong. The language has a musical quality and employs a great number of diphthongs and other vowel combinations. Few novice teachers addressed vowel r words, more difficult vowel team words such as those with diphthongs having more than one sound, or two-syllable words. In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension, but ‘a front vowel sound’ it is definitely not. The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them. People in that part of Bolivia have a lot of Quechua and Aymara words in their vocabulary, and ones with final falling-sonority diphthongs are pretty typical. Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs. Pupils were asked to read a range of sentences and words, but what we were looking at was the merger of the diphthongs in the words near and square. The diphthongs au and ai are pronounced like those in ‘cow’ and ‘sky,’ respectively. 1.1 A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat). 二合元音字母（如在feat中） Example sentencesExamples However, all subsequent authors except Meek have used the diphthong, so Archaeocyathus is now treated as a justified emendation of Billings' original spelling. The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones. 1.2 A compound vowel character; a ligature (such as æ). 元音连字（如æ） Origin Late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- ‘twice’ + phthongos ‘voice, sound’.
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