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Diphthong
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Meaning
Noun
●
In Phonetics:
A
complex
vowel
sound
that
begins
with the
sound
of one
vowel
and
ends
with the
sound
of another
vowel
, in the same syllable.
●
A
vowel
digraph
or ligature.
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Wiktionary
Origin
diphthong
English
diphtongue
French
δίφθογγος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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Phoneme
Vowel
Schwa
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Digraph
Plosive
Syllable
Diacritic
Utterance
Word
Consonant
Phrase
Syllables
Phonemes
Phrasal Verb
Glottal Stop
Substitution Cipher
Covalent Bond
Noun Phrase
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