In unaccented diphthongs and triphthongs there is required only agreement of the strong vowels: càmbies--amàreis.
The diphthongsin English are four; ow as in house, ew as in new, oi as in oil, i as in bite, fight.
With respect to the diphthongs it is incorrect, uncommon, and inconvenient to represent them by simple single signs, rather than by combinations.
Dionysius pronounced οι and αι as real diphthongs of two vowels ending in ι.
In the history of the vowels and diphthongs in Latin we must distinguish the changes which came about independently of accent and those produced by the preponderance of accent in another syllable.
The diphthongs were produced by pronouncing in rapid succession the vowels of which they were composed, according to the above scheme.
The changes of the short vowels and of the diphthongs in unaccented syllables are too numerous and complex to be set forth here.
In all diphthongs the transition from one vowel to the other is gradual.
Diphthongs arising from Synizesis (2499) are sometimes elided in early Latin verse, but not in verse of the classical period.
The tendency to a change in the opposite direction, namely, the narrowing ofdiphthongs to monophthongs, is to be noticed in Middle German dialects, i.
It might be mentioned that, in Modern High German, these new diphthongsare neither in spelling nor in educated pronunciation distinguished from the older ones.
In Marius Victorinus we finddiphthongs thus defined: [Mar.
In pronouncing diphthongssound both vowels, but glide so rapidly from the first to the second as to offer to the ear but a single sound.
Here it is the diphthongs that present the chief difficulty and call for the greatest care.
There are no fewer than twenty-nine diphthongs in the English language.
W, when sounded before vowels, being reckoned a consonant, we have no diphthongs or triphthongs beginning with this letter.
Y, before a vowel heard in the same syllable, is reckoned a consonant; we have, therefore, no diphthongs or triphthongs commencing with this letter.
If diphthongshave been used, for simple vowels, through early mistake or redundancy, the rule is the same.
In diphthongs the breathing and accent are written over the second vowel.
The changes in the union of two vowels are various, depending upon their comparative strength, position, and relation to the long vowels, or diphthongs respectively.
When diphthongs enter into assonance, the weak vowel is ignored: pleita assonances with pliega.
The new diphthongs have reached a more advanced stage in which w displaces ȝ; y is used extensively for i.
The diphthongs in English are four; ow as in house, ew as in new, oi as in oil, i as in bite, fight.
In the diphthongs ea, eo, and ie, the first element receives the stress; the second is pronounced very lightly.
Welsh diphthongs are much more numerous than English.
Diphthongs forming distinct words are much more numerous in Welsh than in English.
This has been made sufficiently clear in treating of the vowels and diphthongs separately.
Give all the vowels and diphthongs their proper sounds and do not slur over them in unaccented syllables, as is done in English.
The Sanskrit diphthongs ai and au disappeared in the secondary stage, e and o being substituted for them respectively.
These still remained synthetic, and still retained the non-classical forms of grammar, but diphthongs and harsh combinations of consonants were eschewed.
In the tertiary stage, these pairs have been combined into new diphthongs ai and au, shorter in pronunciation than ai and au.
The diphthongsin bite and bout are pronounced by the uneducated in many ways not permissible in standard English.
The nasalising of these diphthongs adds to the unpleasant effect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diphthongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
