ɪə eə ʊə Closing diphthong 2.

Five example of diphthong. Diphthongs are sometimes referred to as long vowels but this is misleading. Diphthong sentence example It possesses the five vowels a i u e o both short and long and one pure diphthong au. While vowels and sounds do change in a diphthong they do not necessarily take more time to say than a monophthong.

This diphthong uses letters and letter combinations like ey ay ai and a to form sounds similar to great Here are a few more examples. This is a centring diphthong initiated from the front close region. Weird fierce fakir ea ia eu eo in idea Ian museum theological 19.

There are eight diphthongs commonlyused in English. Aired cairn scarce bear hair ʊə. Some examples of this type of diphthong are the following.

This diphthong is frequently used and only pronounced as a single long O sound. Full list of words with these elements. Deer dear here tear Nn ei ie i in.

It is important to remember that this type has a long O sound sliding into an oo sound. Two 2 ending in ʊ. Long e mean been ceiling hear pier.

The oy sound can be made with the following vowel pairs. Long E ur sound. It was not by any means exclusively the.