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diphthong and is
Although the word " on " is sometimes translated as " syllable ", one on is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an " n " at the end of a syllable.
* A long syllable ( one that contains a long vowel or a diphthong, or ends in a consonant ) with a main stress is metrically strong.
This form is colloquially termed the " long o " as in boat in English, but it is actually most often a diphthong ( realized dialectically anywhere from to ).
* In many American dialects with the cot – caught merger, occurs only before and ( and in the diphthong if this is not interpreted as a single phoneme ).
Almost regularly, a plain iota is replaced by the epsilon-iota diphthong ( commonly if imprecisely known as itacism ), e. g. ΔΑΥΕΙΔ instead οf ΔΑΥΙΔ, ΠΕΙΛΑΤΟΣ instead of ΠΙΛΑΤΟΣ, ΦΑΡΕΙΣΑΙΟΙ instead of ΦΑΡΙΣΑΙΟΙ, etc.
ward ), and the diphthong au is the regular outcome of al before a following consonant ( cf.
gamba > jambe ), and the diphthong au would be unexplained ; the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is Jaille in French which is found in several western placenames.
* In Belfast, is a monophthong in open syllables ( e. g. day ) but a rising diphthong in closed syllables ( e. g. daze ).
The diphthong is retained before inflectional endings, so that board and pause can contrast with bored and paws
Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: That is, the tongue moves during the pronunciation of the vowel.
Where two adjacent vowel sounds occur in different syllables — for example, in the English word re-elect — the result is described as hiatus, not as a diphthong.
The non-syllabic diacritic ( an inverted breve below, ⟨⟩) can be placed under the less prominent component to show that it is part of a diphthong rather than a separate vowel.
However, when the diphthong is analysed as a single phoneme, both elements are often transcribed with vowel letters (, ).
A third, rare type of diphthong that is neither opening nor closing is height-harmonic diphthongs, with both elements at the same vowel height.
A centering diphthong is one that begins with a more peripheral vowel and ends with a more central one, such as,, and in Received Pronunciation or and in Irish.
The diaeresis ( ä, ë, ö ) is normally used to show that a short vowel is to be separately pronounced, that it is not silent or part of a diphthong.
It can act as a carrier for a vowel with no preceding consonant, that is, a word-initial vowel or the second part of a diphthong ; when it carries a sukun, it indicates gemination ( lengthening ) of the following consonant ; and if alifu + sukun occurs at the end of a word, it indicates that the word ends in / eh /.

diphthong and pronounced
It can also be used to " break up " a diphthong as in tío ( pronounced, rather than as it would be without the accent ).
The name " epsilon " (, " simple e ") was coined in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter from the digraph αι, a former diphthong that had come to be pronounced the same as epsilon.
( That name is itself a borrowing of the Old English Eoforwic ; the Old English diphthong eo being cognate with the Norse diphthong jo, the Old English intervocalic f typically being pronounced softly as a modern v, and wic being the Old English version of the Norse vik.
Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the pronunciation ( and spelling ) eu ( pronounced oi ) for the diphthong ( written öö, öh or ö ), e. g.
) Prior to 1918, the name was written " Tønset " ( pronounced Teunset, the diphthong equivalent to that in the ).
In Classical Latin, the combination AE denotes the diphthong, which had a value similar to the long i in fine as pronounced in most dialects of modern English.
* as in færre, æsj, nærmere, Færder, Skjærvø, ærverdig, vært, lærd, Bræin ( where æi is pronounced as a diphthong )
The Old Norse letter á is retained, but has become a diphthong, pronounced in Icelandic and in Faroese.
In Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, French, Galician, Welsh, Southern Sami, and occasionally English, ⟨ ï ⟩ is used when ⟨ i ⟩ follows another vowel and indicates hiatus ( diaeresis ) in the pronunciation of such a word — that is, it indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate syllables, rather than together as a diphthong or digraph.
The northern accent has a very pronounced letter R that becomes a diphthong of non-vowel letters L and R in the southern towns.
Suter ( 1992: 11 ) posits only one diphthong, pronounced.
This Danish, one-letter word is pronounced as a French o but shortened by a glottal stop or as a curt English aw as a pure vowel rather than a diphthong.
Such words are pronounced with a diphthong, / nəʊt /, / bəʊt /… in British English, and / noʊt /, / boʊt /… in American English (/ ə /-mid central vowel, / o /-close-mid back rounded vowel, / ʊ /-near-close near-back rounded vowel ).
These words, which are also pronounced with a diphthong as / teɪk /, / meɪd /… in BrE and AmE, are generally pronounced with the monophthong / eː /, as / teːk /, / meːd /… (/ e /-close-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel )

diphthong and approximately
Thus, the Mandarin reading of " Tokyo " ( 東京 ; Eastern ( 東 ) Capital ( 京 )) is Dōngjīng ; this corresponds to Japanese Tōkyō, with sound history for 京 being supposed approximately * kiæŋ -> kyau -> kyō ( for comparison: Southern Min 京 ( colloquial ) is kiaⁿ with a nasal diphthong ).

diphthong and exists
In the central area of the subdialect, the diphthong uo exists in some words instead of the archaic l and more common u like vuok or stuop, instead of the standard modern vuk and stup.

diphthong and especially
( Watt and Tillotson 2001 ) In the West Riding, there may be a split whereby a diphthong coexists in other words, especially where it precedes or where there is a W at the end of a word ( e. g. grow, low ).

diphthong and between
For instance, Southern American English tends to alter the diphthong as in eye to an somewhere between and.
Iotation is an appearance of palatal approximant before a vowel at the beginning of a word or between two vowels in the middle of a word, creating a diphthongoid ( a partial diphthong ).
Its phonetic value at the time of the invention of the Futhark ( 2nd century ) was not necessarily a diphthong, but possibly a long vowel somewhere between and or, continuing Proto-Indo-European language *.
* In early French, vocalized in many positions between a preceding vowel and a following consonant or end of a word, for example caldus ( Vulgar Latin for " warm, hot ") became chaud ( in Old French with a diphthong similar to, later monophthongized to ).

is and pronounced
and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
In soft woods with pronounced grain, there is sometimes a tendency for the hole to wander, due to the varying hardness of the wood.
Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.
The diffusion is most pronounced and most likely to become fixed, however, in those who have had no or very minimal opportunities to develop the autonomy and initiative that could have been directed into constructive expression and so served as sources of developing self-certainty.
A pronounced ideological diffusion -- i.e., inability to identify independently with given ideas and value systems -- is reflected in many ways.
In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.
^ The word " Aegean " is pronounced " i-Jee-en ".
When the plague hits, the deprivation of this symbol of freedom becomes more pronounced, as the beaches are closed, as is the port.
For example, the orbital 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > ( pronounced " one ess two ") has two electrons and is the lowest energy level ( n
* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.
Amaryllis ( pronounced ) is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species.
The former is used as a high-pitched call, for attracting attention, ( pronounced ) which travels long distances.
( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.
AIX ( Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced ) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.
Ayahuasca ( ayawaska pronounced in the Quechua language ) is any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from the Banisteriopsis spp.
In the Tucanoan languages it is called yagé or yajé ( both pronounced ).
To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.
While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).
In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

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