Noun:

दो स्वरों का एक उच्चारण, संधिस्वर, संयुक्त स्वर,

diphthong's Usage Examples:

H is merely an orthographic sign; it is used to indicate that two consecutive vowels do not form a diphthong (vehs raho), and, added to c, it denotes the pronunciation of the guttural c at the end of a word (arnich).

Centuries passed, however, before this symbol was generally adopted, Athens using only 0 for o, w and ov, the spurious diphthong, until the adoption of the whole Ionic alphabet in 403 B.C.'

Words beginning in hue, where the Ii, not etymologically derived, marks the inseparable aspiration of the initial diphthong ue, are readily pronounced ge throughotit almost the whole extent of the domain: gziele for huele (o I e t); gueso for hueso (0 s).

Latin e was identified with a native diphthong ei, and becomes zvy, as in rhwyf from remus.

Thus the long i in ride, wine, 'c., has become the diphthong ai, and the name of the symbol I is itself so pronounced.

A hard-and-fast rule of pronunciation is that only vowel or diphthong sounds, or the letters" m," n," ng," k," t "and" p "are permissible at the end of words, and hence the final letter of all words ending in anything else is simply suppressed or is pronounced as though it were a letter naturally producing one or other of those sounds.

Yet at Corinth alongside LC` "3, which is found for the so-called spurious diphthong a (i.e.

from Corinth, an ancient inscription written 1 30vvrpoc 66v has recently been discovered, which shows that though Cleonae for B wrote E {, like the Corinthian ?j, and, as at Corinth, wrote for a vowel sound, the vowel thus represented was not short and long e and n) as at Corinth, but Il only, as in Xp g A, (X p i i a 1 Here 'a represents and the spurious diphthong is represented by a, as in (dycv, Doric infinitive -= a form which shows that c has at Cleonae the more modern form I as distinguished from the Corinthian Regarding three other questions controversy still rages.

The diphthong ai is 1 K.

It possesses the five vowels a, i, u, e, o, both short and long, and one pure diphthong, au.

Synonyms:

vowel, vowel sound,

Antonyms:

nasal, liquid, consonant,