While eɪ is virtually the same as the Spanish diphthong ei many Spanish speakers have difficulty remembering that the most common spelling for this sound is a.

Examples of diphthong ei. A Spanish Triphthong is the combination of three vowels in the same syllable. What are some examples of a diphthong. The diphthong list below provides many diphthong examples with audio files so that you can hear the correct pronunciation of each Spanish diphthong.

Below is a list of words that vary only by one having the vowel sound e and the other the vowel sound eɪ. Great break steak 14. Falling diphthongs are found in the words few yell weed chute and walk Similar to falling and rising diphthongs.

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Au as in dawn car Laura. Closed vowel i u closed vowel i u. The Old Latin diphthong ei which was the outcome of older ai and oi in non-initial syllables ended up being pronounced in Classical Latin as iː merging with the reflex of long i in some cases it instead merged with eː.

Closed vowel i u unstressed and an open tonic a e o. Because of this the digraph was used after the Old Latin period as a spelling for the sound iː both in cases. Marcos found himselfEUntra in an reunion to see if you can refinance your deufind the bank.

Examples aɪ Cry My Like Bright Lime eɪ Bake rain lay eight break əʊ Go oh slow loan though aʊ Bound house eə Pair lair chair ɪə Career fear ɔɪ Boy coy toy ʊə Fur sure. A glide such as this gives rise to the closing diphthong above. J ui cio c ui dice.