DIPHTHONG


Meaning of DIPHTHONG in English

(~s)

A ~ is a vowel in which the speaker’s tongue changes position while it is being pronounced, so that the vowel sounds like a combination of two other vowels. The vowel sound in ‘tail’ is a ~.

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