An example of an English diphthong is the ou combination in sound.

Example of a diphthong. An example would be how certain folks in Birmingham pronounce nice in a manner that sounds more like noice. Two 2 ending in ʊ. But in all my years of coaching there is one that is particularly challenging for non-native speakers and thats the diphthong in a word like no.

Moored tour lure sure pure. If there are. It is pronounced as a long E sound sliding into an Ur sound.

Long A long E. Eɪ aɪ ɔɪ 3. Aɪ in the words eye and ɪ consists of the a vowel and only in about the last quarter of the diphthong does the glide to ɪ becomes noticeable.

For example New Yorkers adopted a diphthong that features an aw sound. As English is a language of exceptions and certain eccentricities please note that the letters w and y can be classed as vowels when dealing with English diphthongs. An example of a diphthong can be seen in the word mouse in which the ou part of the word obviously consists of two distinct vowels but there is no syllabic break between the two.

There are many examples of diphthongs. I Clothes Hey No cr And Rn Au Trico tr ai Romb Oide. For examplethatandaguinaldoare not diphthongs.

In Spanish the word aire its pronounced aire. 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. Other examples of this diphthong include might pride bike cry or why It was also the reason behind two diphthong words in the opening question like and slide.