Thus diêî which has two macrons has no diphthongs.

Example of diphthong in poetry. A longum contained a long vowel or a diphthong in most instances. Aɪ This diphthong creates sounds similar to eye and most often occurs with letter combinations that include i igh and y. In the Spanish metric a verse is formed by a certain amount of syllables and a form of distribution of the accents.

It is pronounced as a long E sound sliding into an Ur sound. There are also other types of metrics such as Germanic and Scandinavian Hebrew Japanese or Greco-Latin. 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.

Words such as deep clean boat may paint true key moon show and tied are examples of digraphs. A long syllable was literally one that took longer to pronounce than a short syllable. Diphthong Sound Example Words.

Diaeresis as separate pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong was first named where it occurred in the poetry of Homer. For more on this sound see the long vowel sound page. Long I long E.

This diphthong is pronounced as a long A sound sliding into a U sound. Specifically a syllable consisting of a long vowel or diphthong or followed by two consonants. Diêî has 3 syllables.

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