Vowel sound involving motion through 3 vowel qualities
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In phonetics, a triphthong (UK: /ˈtrɪfθɒŋ,ˈtrɪpθɒŋ/TRIF-thong, TRIP-thong, US: /-θɔːŋ/-thawng) (from Greek τρίφθογγοςtriphthongos, lit.'with three sounds' or 'with three tones') is a monosyllabic vowel combination involving a quick but smooth movement of the articulator from one vowel quality to another that passes over a third. While "pure" vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one target articulator position, diphthongs have two and triphthongs three.
Triphthongs are not to be confused with disyllabic sequences of a diphthong followed by a monophthong, as in German Feuer[ˈfɔʏɐ] 'fire', where the final vowel is longer than those found in triphthongs.
diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be unconditioned or conditioned. It may be triggered...
slightly more back and rounded than that in "cloak". RP also possesses the triphthongs /aɪə/ as in tire, /aʊə/ as in tower, /əʊə/ as in lower, /eɪə/ as in layer...
through three qualities is a triphthong. All languages have monophthongs and many languages have diphthongs, but triphthongs or vowel sounds with even more...
and oy in for example doy (Swedish: dö; English: die). There is also a triphthong that exists in no other Norse languages: iau as in skiaute/skiauta (Swedish:...
Old Occitan diphthongs and triphthongs IPA Example Meaning falling /aj/ paire father /aw/ autre other /uj/ conoiser to know /uw/ dous sweet /ɔj/ pois...
replaced with the uvular /ʀ/ in the Bökingharde (Mooring) dialect. One triphthong sound /uai/ only occurs in the Föhr dialect. /ia/ and /ua/ do not occur...
transitional pronunciations are unclear. Early Old French had additional triphthongs /iej/ and /uoj/ (equivalent to diphthongs followed by /j/); these soon...
nucleus that has a vowel (which can be a monophthong, diphthong, or even a triphthong in certain varieties), preceded by an onset (a single consonant, or consonant...
nucleus is usually a vowel, in the form of a monophthong, diphthong, or triphthong, but sometimes is a syllabic consonant. In most Germanic languages, lax...
distinctive nasality are rare. There are about nine diphthongs and a few triphthongs. Most consonants have both palatal and non-palatal counterparts, including...
diphthongs and triphthongs. Additionally, in casual speech, adjacent heterosyllabic vowels may combine into diphthongs and triphthongs or even sequences...
generally preserved in Mandarin dialects, yielding several diphthongs and triphthongs in contrast to the larger sets of monophthongs common in other dialect...
diphthongs, Vietnamese has closing diphthongs and triphthongs. The closing diphthongs and triphthongs consist of a main vowel component followed by a shorter...
Elaboration of Received Pronunciation English /eɪ/ or /iː/ into a complex triphthong approximating, and often transcribed -air- or -yair-. For example: 'mate'...
asterisk are sometimes classified as long: Additionally, there are three triphthongs. For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are...
triphthong was simplified by dropping the middle vowel. The triphthong reduction here produced /i/ by deleting the middle vowel /ɛ/. The triphthong resulted...
vowel breaking: the shifting of a monophthong into a diphthong or even a triphthong. In the Southern accent, the short front vowels /æ/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/ may...
"laud"-"lord", [ˈwoʊʔə] "water." /ɔː/ → [ɔː] or a centering diphthong/triphthong of the type [ɔə~ɔuə] when in final position, with the latter variants...
between dialects. Sursilvan dialects contain eleven diphthongs and four triphthongs ([ɪau], [ɪɛu], [uau], and [uɛi]). Other dialects have different inventories;...
glottal stop. ᴤ denotes a voiced laryngeal spirant. For diphthongs, triphthongs and prosody, the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet uses several forms of the tie...
arose from two separate sources, often conflated: The contraction of the triphthong *ayV. Some Arabs said banē (< *banaya) for banā ("he built") and zēda...
diphthongs and six triphthongs. The diphthongs are ai, ao, ei, eo, ia, ie, ii, io, iu, oi, oo, ua, ue, ui, uo, ūa, ūe, ūi, and ūo. The triphthongs are ioa, ioo...
Karelian Proper (Karelian Proper: Varšinaiskarjala) is a supradialect of the Karelian language, which is a Finnic language. Karelian Proper is one of two/three...
Latin writing system. The language features monophthong, diphthong, and triphthong vowels. Waris is spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla (3°17′41″S...
the diphthongs North Karelian has a variety of triphthongs: Olonets Karelian has only the triphthongs ieu, iey, iäy, uau, uou and yöy. There are 20 non-palatalized...
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