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Word: Diphthong
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from French diphtongue, via late Latin from Greek diphthongos, from di- ‘twice’ + phthongos ‘voice, sound’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈdɪfθɒŋ
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈdɪpθɒŋ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a 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)
Short Definition:sound formed by combination of two vowels in single syllable
Examples:- these are the most common type of diphthong among the languages of the world
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