While in English we have two kinds of vowels.

Examples of diphthongs vowels. They are A I U E and O. And thats just scratching the surface. Diphthongs - 2 Episode 3 23 Sep 2014 This is the second diphthong programme in our series of 45 pronunciation videos that explore the sounds of English.

Now lets listen to a few more examples taken from real life. The ow sound can be made with the following vowel pairs. Word lists Vowels i ɪ and i.

Olive oil poured on a spoon. English has 26 letters of the alphabet which represents 44 sounds. Diphthongs are two vowels paired together in a single syllable that create two separate sounds.

The F ire enters the citys kind of if you like mythos about itself Jonathan Sawday BBC4. Here we have two vowels working side by side and together they create a sound different than anything O or I alone can produce. In some cases those vowels are heard in a very faint debilitated form to the extent that it might be difficult to say if they are pronounced at all or not.

The sound ei in play has two vowel sounds e and i. Crime like lime e ɪ This diphthong creates sounds similar to great and is most often used with letter combinations that include ey ay ai and a. Standard English pronunciation has 7 diphthong phonemes some alphabets contain 8 phonemes see below.

Maybe the most important aspect when we refer to diphthongs in English is that they are not formed by two simple vowels together but one long. In English pronunciation there are eight different diphthong sounds. But in Bahasa there are only 5 vowels.