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  2. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    Narrow diphthongs are the ones that end with a vowel which on a vowel chart is quite close to the one that begins the diphthong, for example Northern Dutch [eɪ], [øʏ] and [oʊ]. Wide diphthongs are the opposite – they require a greater tongue movement, and their offsets are farther away from their starting points on the vowel chart.

  3. List of British place-names containing reflexes of Celtic ...

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    Place-names containing *kaitos are a particularly important source of evidence for understanding the phonological development of the Indo-European diphthong /ai/ in the Brittonic languages; [3]: 324–30 for dialectal variation in the development of /t/ in Brittonic; [4] for the palatal diphthongisation of /eː/ after /k/ in Old English; [5 ...

  4. Dutch phonology - Wikipedia

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    Black vowels occur before /r/ in Northern Standard Dutch and Randstad Dutch, and the blue vowel occurs before /ŋ/. [30] Dutch vowels can be classified as lax and tense, [31] checked and free [32] or short and long. [33] Phonetically however, the close vowels /i, y, u/ are as short as the phonological lax/short vowels unless they occur before ...

  5. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology .

  6. Finnish phonology - Wikipedia

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    The table below lists the conventionally postulated diphthongs in Finnish. In speech (i.e. phonetically speaking) a diphthong does not sound like a sequence of two different vowels; instead, the sound of the first vowel gradually glides into the sound of the second one with full vocalization lasting through the whole sound.

  7. File:RP English diphthongs chart.svg - Wikipedia

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    2009-02-19T18:25:44Z Moxfyre 980x720 (18659 Bytes) Added example vowel markers and labels, margins with room for labels, and explanatory text, split into separate SVG layers. My goal is to make this more useful as a ''template'' for vowel charts. 2009-02-19T06:05:52Z Moxfyre 882x660 (2907 Bytes) removed unused defs in the XML to reduce file size

  8. Latvian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Long vowels and diphthongs have a tone, regardless of their position in the word. This includes the so-called "mixed diphthongs", composed of a short vowel followed by a sonorant. There are three types of tones: level (also drawling, sustained) tone (stieptā intonācija) high throughout the syllable e.g., loks [ˉluɔ̯ks] ('spring onion')

  9. Canadian raising - Wikipedia

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    A simplified diagram of Canadian raising (Rogers 2000:124).Actual starting points vary. Canadian raising (also sometimes known as English diphthong raising [1]) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points.

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