Diphthongs

Arabic Vowel Characters Explanation To create a long vowel form of a fatHa To create a long vowel form of a damma To create a long vowel form of a kasra Diphthongs Diphthongs in Arabic are a special category of vowels because, in essence, they're monosyllabic sounds that begin with one vowel and "glide" into another vowel.

Arabic for Dummies Bouchentouf, Amine 2006

Thirteen (13), by the addition of the following five (5) Diphthongs or

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The next and the most important of the Diphthongs (except AU) is AI, compounded of the third (A) and the first (I) of the simple

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The Vowels and Diphthongs of this Basic Scale may be Long or Short, without any change of quality.

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Diphthongs. ae like _ai_ in eu with its two elements, ĕ and ŭ,

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

The following are the five (5) Diphthongs which complete the Vowel

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

There are no Diphthongs or Triphthongs in the English sense of two or three vowels meeting in one syllable and blending into a different sound, as "pause," "plough."

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

Diphthongs are combinations of two vowels uttered as a single sound, by one breath-impulse.

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

Diphthongs are considered as forming one syllable.

Miscellany 1784

_ Or else they are mixt, which out of two, do so melt down into one, as that they are pronounced together, and are different from _Diphthongs_, in as much as their

Surdus loquens. English John Conrade Amman 1696