The sound will begin as one vowel sound but will then slide into another vowel sound.

Examples of diphthongs vowels. The words boy because raw and even out are examples of words that contain diphthongs. Double vowel sounds diphthongs In this section we will learn about diphthong. 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.

Diphthongs are two vowels paired together in a single syllable that create two separate sounds. Now lets listen to a few more examples taken from real life. While in English we have two kinds of vowels.

Example Words i Me these need be keep deep sheep Jeep beep eat feel see meet deal read beat peak seek heap leap feet seat heel keen seen teen leave. In English pronunciation there are eight different diphthong sounds. The oy sound can be made with the following vowel pairs.

Standard English pronunciation has 7 diphthong phonemes some alphabets contain 8 phonemes see below. Some examples of diphthongs in English can be found in the words loud foil boy and say When talking about Spanish diphthongs we need to bear in mind a very important thing. They are A I U E and O.

Here we have two vowels working side by side and together they create a sound different than anything O or I alone can produce. And thats just scratching the surface. English has 26 letters of the alphabet which represents 44 sounds.

Examples include rain and weight Wide diphthongs are vowel sounds with more drastically different articulations like in brown found and now. In English language a diphthong is a one-syllable sound formed of two vowels. A Spanish diphthong can only be formed if we have at least one unaccented weak vowel the word unaccented is very important here as you will see in the hiatuses section.