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Vowel sound involving motion through 3 vowel qualities
In phonetics, a triphthong (UK: /ˈtrɪfθɒŋ, ˈtrɪpθɒŋ/ TRIF-thong, TRIP-thong, US: /-θɔːŋ/ -thawng) (from Greek τρίφθογγος triphthongos, lit. 'with three
Triphthong
Sound change
transcription delimiters. Specimen of triphthong smoothing Male Received Pronunciation speaker displaying triphthong smoothing in the words shower and fire
Triphthong_smoothing
Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract
through three qualities is a triphthong. All languages have monophthongs and many languages have diphthongs, but triphthongs or vowel sounds with even more
Vowel
Language of the Occitano-Romance group
Old Occitan diphthongs and triphthongs IPA Example Meaning falling /aj/ paire father /aw/ autre other /uj/ conoiser to know /uw/ dous sweet /ɔj/ pois
Old_Occitan
North Germanic language
and oy in for example doy (Swedish: dö; English: die). There is also a triphthong that exists in no other Norse languages: iau as in skiaute/skiauta (Swedish:
Gutnish
Process by which monophthongs become diphthongs and triphthongs
diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may be unconditioned or conditioned. It may be triggered
Vowel_breaking
Papuan language spoken in Southeast Asia
Latin writing system. The language features monophthong, diphthong, and triphthong vowels. Waris is spoken by about 2,500 people around Wasengla (3°17′41″S
Waris_language
Sino-Tibetan language
nucleus that has a vowel (which can be a monophthong, diphthong, or even a triphthong in certain varieties), preceded by an onset (a single consonant, or consonant
Chinese_language
Standard accent for British English
slightly more back and rounded than that in "cloak". RP also possesses the triphthongs /aɪə/ as in tire, /aʊə/ as in tower, /əʊə/ as in lower, /eɪə/ as in layer
Received_Pronunciation
Sinitic language originating in southern China
transcription delimiters. Hakka has six monophthongs, nine diphthongs, and one triphthong, along with the semivowel coda /ɹ̩/, which may be realised as [ɨ]. The
Hakka_Chinese
Trigraph
rarest. In Old French, ⟨eau⟩ represented a triphthong, probably pronounced [e̯aɯ̯] (or [ə̯aɯ̯]). This triphthong originated from the Proto-French diphthong
Eau_(trigraph)
Native alphabet of the Korean language
same applies to many other vowels. Some vowels were even pronounced as triphthongs, such as ㅙ (ㅗㅏㅣ). Vowel harmony, which was strict in Middle Korean, has
Hangul
Latin script for the Vietnamese language
the vowel part consists of more than one vowel (such as diphthongs and triphthongs), the placement of the tone is still a matter of debate. Generally, there
Vietnamese_alphabet
County of England
Elaboration of Received Pronunciation English /eɪ/ or /iː/ into a complex triphthong approximating, and often transcribed -air- or -yair-. For example: 'mate'
Lincolnshire
Pure vowel sound
sounds. Diphthong Index of phonetics articles Semivowel Table of vowels Triphthong Vowel Vowel breaking Vowel hiatus μονόφθογγος. Liddell, Henry George;
Monophthong
Finnic language of Karelia, in Russia and Finland
the diphthongs North Karelian has a variety of triphthongs: Olonets Karelian has only the triphthongs ieu, iey, iäy, uau, uou and yöy. There are 20 non-palatalized
Karelian_language
Perceived longer vowel sounds and diphthongs in speech
vowel breaking: the shifting of a monophthong into a diphthong or even a triphthong. In the Southern accent, the short front vowels /æ/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/ may
Drawl
Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in northeastern India
type. The vowels can be represented as follows: Mizo has the following triphthongs: iai, as in iai, piai iau as in riau ruau, tiau tuau etc. uai, as in
Mizo_language
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum
transitional pronunciations are unclear. Early Old French had additional triphthongs /iej/ and /uoj/ (equivalent to diphthongs followed by /j/); these soon
Old_French
Form of the Arabic language
arose from two separate sources, often conflated: The contraction of the triphthong *ayV. Some Arabs said banē (< *banaya) for banā ("he built") and zēda
Classical_Arabic
Kra–Dai language
asterisk are sometimes classified as long: Additionally, there are three triphthongs. For purposes of determining tone, those marked with an asterisk are
Thai_language
Sound system of Spanish
rarely occurs, while others always exhibit it. Spanish also possesses triphthongs like /uei/ and, in dialects that use a second-person plural conjugation
Spanish_phonology
Sounds and pronunciation of the Romanian language
diphthong /o̯a/ tends to be pronounced as a single vowel /ɒ/. Other triphthongs such as /juj/ and /o̯aw/ occur sporadically in interjections and uncommon
Romanian_phonology
Standard variety and register of the Zhuang Tai (Kra-Dai) language cluster
different in that it has five fricatives. [ə] only occurs in diphthong or triphthong sounds. [ɤ] can occur in recent Chinese loanwords. Among other northern
Standard_Zhuang
Minority language of Germany
replaced with the uvular /ʀ/ in the Bökingharde (Mooring) dialect. One triphthong sound /uai/ only occurs in the Föhr dialect. /ia/ and /ua/ do not occur
North_Frisian_language
Gallo-Romance language of Switzerland
between dialects. Sursilvan dialects contain eleven diphthongs and four triphthongs ([ɪau], [ɪɛu], [uau], and [uɛi]). Other dialects have different inventories;
Romansh_language
Overview of the history of the French language
triphthong was simplified by dropping the middle vowel. The triphthong reduction here produced /i/ by deleting the middle vowel /ɛ/. The triphthong resulted
History_of_French
Qiangic language spoken in Tibet and China
vowels except for /ə/. In addition, there exist 15 diphthongs and one triphthong in the language of Northern Qiang. There may not be a significant phonetic
Northern_Qiang_language
Thus, the triphthong /aʊə/ of tower merges with the /aɪə/ of tire (both surface as diphthongal [ɑə] or with the /ɑː/ of tar through triphthong smoothing)
English-language vowel changes before historical /r/
English-language_vowel_changes_before_historical_/r/
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India
has the following diphthongs: Patsho Khiamniungan has the following triphthongs: iai, as in hiai, iau as in hiauh, kiau, uai, as in huai,kuai, üie, as
Patsho_Khiamniungan
West Germanic language spoken in Wilamowice, Poland
Diphthongs Front Front Back ascending descending Close i̯ø Close-mid ɪ̯ɘ̟ ei̯ Open-mid œʏ̯ ɔi̯ Open ai̯ Triphthong ʏ̯øœ̯
Wymysorys
Dialect of Teochew spoken in Pontianak, Indonesia
vowels and 5 nasalized vowels. It also features 20 diphthongs and 4 triphthongs. In total, there are about 87 rimes. The tonal system of Pontianak Teochew
Pontianak_Teochew
Variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan
is a more open vowel. In addition, there are several diphthongs and triphthongs (for example, ⟨iau⟩). The consonants ⟨m⟩ and ⟨ng⟩ can function as a syllabic
Taiwanese_Hokkien
Indo-Aryan language
Triphthongs Combination Example Meaning IPA Transliteration /ɪeʊ/ /pɪeʊ/ pieu "(you) drank" /ʊɪaː/ /gʰʊ̃ɪaː/ ghũiā "the root of Arum" /aːeʊ/ /kʰaːeʊ/
Awadhi_language
Abugida script for languages spoken in Thailand
Used only in certain words. Traditionally, these sets of diphthongs and triphthongs are regarded as combinations of regular vowels or diphthongs with wo
Thai_script
North Frisian dialect of Amrum, Germany
[land, country] and skuul [school]) Use of numerous diphthongs and one triphthong, "uai" (e.g. spuai [to tell fortunes]) Frequent use of umlauts Final "w"
Amrum_North_Frisian
Phonetic alphabet for Uralic languages
consonants is indicated as follows: ᵃ ă a a˴ à a͐ ā â For diphthongs, triphthongs and prosody, Finno-Ugric transcription uses several forms of the tie
Finno-Ugric_transcription
Variety of Hakka Chinese spoken in Indonesia
Diphthongs Triphthongs ia 寫 (sia²⁴) iu 有 (ʒiu⁵³) oi 灰 (foi⁵³) iau 橋 (kʰiau⁵⁵) io 茄 (kʰio⁵) ai 大 (tʰai²⁴) ui 跪 (kʰui²⁴) ie 蟻 (ŋie³¹) au 爪 (t͡sau²⁴) eu
Singkawang_Hakka
Dialect of the Lao language
the end of a consonant. ^4 These occur only as parts of diphthongs or triphthongs and are usually included as parts of vowels. The vowel structure of Isan
Isan_language
Variety of Mandarin Chinese
become unrounded, transforming into yǐ. The diphthong -ei [ei] and the triphthong -ui [uei] are monophthongized into [e]. The non-standard Taiwanese Guoyu
Taiwanese_Mandarin
Topics referred to by the same term
Vowel breaking, the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong All pages with titles beginning with Breaking All pages with titles containing
Breaking
Comparison of languages
the final triphthong /uaj/ by '◌วย'. Lao has /uːə/ represented medially by '◌ວ◌' and finally by '◌ົວ', /uːəʔ/ by '◌ົວະ' and the final triphthong /uːəj/ by
Comparison_of_Lao_and_Thai
many varieties of British English where bisyllabic /aɪ.ə/ becomes the triphthong /aɪə/ in certain words with /aɪ.ə/. As a result, "scientific" is pronounced
Phonological history of English diphthongs
Phonological_history_of_English_diphthongs
Austroasiatic language
dialect on which the standard is based. In addition, some diphthongs and triphthongs are analysed as a vowel nucleus plus a semivowel (/j/ or /w/) coda because
Khmer_language
West Hmongic dialect continuum
Chinese. /u/ is pronounced [y] after palatal consonants. There is also a triphthong /jeβ/ ⟨ieu⟩, as well as other i- and u-initial sequences in Chinese borrowings
Hmong_language
American and Canadian English phonological phenomenon
been called the "Southern drawl" instead, with /æ/ becoming in essence a triphthong [æjə]. However, many speakers from the South still use the nasal /æ/-raising
/æ/_raising
Alemannic German dialect spoken in Alsace
U and their umlauted Standard German forms Ä, Ö, Ü For diphthongs & triphthongs that do not exist in Standard German Orthal combines standard German
Alsatian_dialect
Variety of Portuguese language
has eight oral vowels, five nasal vowels, and several diphthongs and triphthongs, some oral and some nasal. In vernacular varieties, the diphthong /ow/
Brazilian_Portuguese
Combination of two adjacent vowel sounds
diphthongs and triphthongs. Additionally, in casual speech, adjacent heterosyllabic vowels may combine into diphthongs and triphthongs or even sequences
Diphthong
Munda language of South Asia
toward a symmetrical five-vowel system. There are numerous diphthongs and triphthongs. Larger vowel sequences can be found, eg. kɔeaeae, meaning 'he will ask
Santali_language
Dialect of English spoken in London
[ˈwɔwʔə] "water." /ɔː/ is realised as [ɔː] or a centering diphthong/triphthong of the type [ɔə~ɔwə] when in final position, with the latter variants
Cockney
Dialect of Low German
of Plautdietsch is large, with 13 simple vowels, 10 diphthongs and one triphthong. /y/ is rounded and is heard only in the Old Colonyand Bergthal groups
Plautdietsch
Celtic language
distinctive nasality are rare. There are about nine diphthongs and a few triphthongs. Most consonants have both palatal and non-palatal counterparts, including
Scottish_Gaelic
consonant Teeth Tenseness Tonal language Tone sandhi Tongue Trill consonant Triphthong Unrounded vowel Uvula Uvular consonant Uvular ejective (qʼ) Uvular ejective
Index_of_phonetics_articles
Extinct language variant of South America
i and as /kʷ/ before a, in which case it always forms a diphthong or triphthong (e.g. que /ke/, tequay /teˈkʷaj/). Syllables with ĭ and ỹ are always stressed
Classical_Guarani
Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
nucleus is usually a vowel, in the form of a monophthong, diphthong, or triphthong, but sometimes is a syllabic consonant. It has been suggested that if
Syllable
Goidelic Celtic language of the Isle of Man
/ə/ is realised as [ø]. Manx has a large inventory of diphthongs and triphthongs, some of which tended to merge or monophthongise in Late Manx. Manx orthography
Manx_language
Constructed human language based on predicate logic
normally falls on the penultimate syllable. There are 16 diphthongs (and no triphthongs). A distinction between diphthongs and monophthongs can be written by
Lojban
broad or slender status of the consonant. Category 2: 'diphthongs' and 'triphthongs'. In this category, vowels are written together to represent either a
Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
Scottish_Gaelic_phonology_and_orthography
Dialect of the Karelian language
Karelian Proper (Karelian Proper: varšinaiskarjala, varzinkarjala) is a supradialect of the Karelian language, which is a Finnic language. Karelian Proper
Karelian_Proper_language
Central Pahari language spoken in India
diphthongs vary dialect by dialect. Triphthongs are less commonly found in the language. The most common word where a triphthong may occur is ह्वाउन [English:
Garhwali_language
Finnic language in western Latvia
Livonian has also a large number of diphthongs, as well as a number of triphthongs. These can also occur as short or long. The two opening diphthongs /ie/
Livonian_language
Typographical symbol spanning letters)
double breve: The triple inverted breve or triple breve below indicates a triphthong The double inverted breve, also known as the ligature tie, marks a diphthong
Tie_(typography)
Variety of the Hakka Chinese language
Diphthongs Triphthongs ia 借 (tsia⁵⁵) iu 舅 (kʰiu²⁴) oi 愛 (oi⁵⁵) ie 蟻 (ŋie⁵⁵) au 教 (kau⁵⁵) iau 椒 (tsiau²⁴) uai 筷 (kʰuai⁵⁵) io 靴 (hio²⁴) ai 帶 (tai⁵⁵) ui
Pontianak_Hakka
Language family
such as Chechen, which has at least twenty-eight vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs. Percentage of Northeast Caucasian languages by speakers Chechen (33
Northeast_Caucasian_languages
Eastern Min Chinese language
Triphthong /wai/ Open syllable [wai] (我, 怪)
Fuzhou_dialect
Hmongic language spoken in China
Diphthong rising ai /ai̯/ eu /œy̯/ ang /ɑɯ̯/ ao /ɑu̯/ falling ie /i̯e/ iw /i̯ɯ/ ia /i̯ɑ/ iu /i̯u/ io /i̯o/ Triphthong iai /i̯ai̯/ iang /i̯ɑɯ̯/ iao /i̯ɑu̯/
A-Hmao_language
Extinct Northwest Semitic language
result of monophthongization of the diphthongs аy and aw, respectively. Triphthongs too were contracted frequently: aya, iya > â; iyi > î; ăyu, iyu, uyu
Ugaritic
Earliest stage of the Arabic language before Islam
ISSN 0905-7196. van Putten, Marijn (2017). "The development of the triphthongs in Quranic and Classical Arabic". Arabian Epigraphic Notes. 3. Leiden
Old_Arabic
University in Fez, Morocco
plosive which has no equivalent in European languages – the ويّي ([awijiː]) triphthong in the university's name, and the French colonization of Morocco have
University_of_al-Qarawiyyin
Sino-Tibetan language of Yunnan, southwestern China
with [ŋ]. Jianchuan finals comprise: diphthongs: ɑo iɛ iɑ io iɯ ui uɛ uɑ triphthong: iɑo All but u, ɑo and iɑo have contrasting nasalized variants. Dali Bai
Bai_language
Rhenish phonetic writing system
at least does not create ambiguities within a dialect. There are no triphthongs, although diphthongs can be followed by schwas in some languages. If
Rheinische_Dokumenta
Dialect of Hokkien spoken in Singapore
[ɔ̃] 嗚 (onn) Open a [a] 亞 (a) ann [ã] 餡 (ānn) Diphthongs & Triphthongs Diphthong Triphthong ai [ai] 愛 (ài) ia [ia] 椰 (iâ) io [io] 腰 (io) ua [ua] 娃 (ua)
Singaporean_Hokkien
English dialect used by Thai people
their pronunciation its uniqueness (Kruatrachue, 1960). Diphthongs and triphthongs are generally simplified to long vowels, such as the /ei/ in "blade"
Tinglish
Frequency and point values in the board game
×1 Note that there are tiles for digraphs, trigraphs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, and also glass tiles for the tone marks: 1 point for the acute accent
Scrabble_letter_distributions
Sounds and pronunciation of Catalan
don't want them'). There are also a number of phonetic diphthongs and triphthongs, all of which begin and/or end in [j] or [w]. The diphthong [ij] is mainly
Catalan_phonology
Phonology of the Vietnamese language
to combine with offglides /j/ or /w/ to form closing diphthongs and triphthongs. Below is a chart listing the closing sequences of general northern speech
Vietnamese_phonology
Oïl language spoken in eastern Brittany, France
rarely ɥ: wa, wə, wi, aw, ja, ju, aj, ej, ɛ̃i, ɥi, ɥɛ̃, ɥə, etc. The triphthong jaw is also attested. The diphthong aw, which is very common, most often
Gallo_language
Creole language spoken in Singapore
English World-Wide, 3(2), 135–45. Lim, Siew Siew and Low, Ee Ling (2005) 'Triphthongs in Singapore English'. In David Deterding, Adam Brown and Low Ee Ling
Singlish
ISO standard for transcription of Thai
letters. The consonants ย and ว when used as finals, form diphthongs and triphthongs with the preceding vowel, and ISO 11940-2 uses the vowel letters i and
ISO_11940-2
Variety of the English language
Press. p. 88. ISBN 9781108841665. Lim, Siew Siew; Low, Ee Ling (2005). "Triphthongs in Singapore English". In David Deterding; Adam Brown; Low Ee Ling (eds
Singapore_English
Speech sounds behaving as single segments but with an internal transition
iconic shape: [ma˨˩˦]. In the case of vowels, the terms diphthong and triphthong are used instead of 'contour'. They are vowels that glide from one place
Contour_(linguistics)
Sounds and pronunciation of the Italian language
allowing for combinations of /j w/ with falling diphthongs to be called triphthongs. One view holds that it is more accurate to label /j w/ as consonants
Italian_phonology
Critically endangered Tungusic language
diphthongs and six triphthongs. The diphthongs are ai, ao, ei, eo, ia, ie, ii, io, iu, oi, oo, ua, ue, ui, uo, ūa, ūe, ūi, and ūo. The triphthongs are ioa, ioo
Manchu_language
Phonology of the English language
difference in the most common phonetic realizations of that vowel. The triphthongs given in the RP table are usually regarded as sequences of two phonemes
English_phonology
Qiangic language spoken in Sichuan, China
or triphthong. Native words of Ersu do not contain coda consonants. Each syllable will have a nucleus that is a vowel, diphthong, or triphthong, and
Ersu_language
Kra–Dai language of Myanmar
Thai have difficulties with sounds such as "ia," "ua," and "uea" [ɯa]. Triphthongs are absent. Shan has no systematic distinction between long and short
Shan_language
Arawakan language spoken in South America
they are stressed. Sequences of vowels may reduce to diphthongs and triphthongs, for example [nwajˈnidzonɪ] for /nu-aiˈnidzu-ni/. The resulting [j] behaves
Baniwa_of_Içana
Variety of English spoken in Malta
CURE are tenser at the beginning than their British equivalents. RP triphthongs (e. g. in words like "tower" and "tire") are realised as [ɐʊɛr] and [ɐɪɛr]
Maltese_English
System for writing in Spanish
or triphthong. A diphthong is any sequence of an unstressed high vowel (⟨i⟩ or ⟨u⟩) with another vowel (as in gracias or náutico), and a triphthong is
Spanish_orthography
Branch of the Chinese language family
generally preserved in Mandarin dialects, yielding several diphthongs and triphthongs in contrast to the larger sets of monophthongs common in other dialect
Mandarin_Chinese
Dialect of Hokkien spoken in parts of Malaysia
[ɔ̃] 嗚 (onn) Open a [a] 亞 (a) ann [ã] 餡 (ānn) Diphthongs & Triphthongs Diphthong Triphthong ai [ai] 愛 (ài) ia [ia] 椰 (iâ) io [io] 腰 (io) iu [iu] 油 (iû)
Penang_Hokkien
Austroasiatic language
diphthongs, Vietnamese has closing diphthongs and triphthongs. The closing diphthongs and triphthongs consist of a main vowel component followed by a shorter
Vietnamese_language
Sounds and pronunciation of the Russian language
('side'), нёс [nʲʷɵs] ('(he) carried'). /o/ is a diphthong [ʊ̯o] or even a triphthong [ʊ̯ɔʌ̯], with a closer lip rounding at the beginning of the vowel that
Russian_phonology
Abugida script for the Lao language
forms and semi-vowels to represent the full repertoire of diphthongs and triphthongs used in the language. Vowels cannot stand alone or begin a syllable,
Lao_script
Romanization system of Southern Min Chinese languages
to the correct placement of tone marks in the case of diphthongs and triphthongs, particularly those which include ⟨oa⟩ and ⟨oe⟩. Most modern writers
Pe̍h-ōe-jī
Austronesian language spoken in Thailand
'to utter'). /-j/ and /-w/ can be treated as a part of diphthongs or triphthongs. /-l/ only exists in the Phuket dialect. Urak Lawoiʼ does not have tones
Urak_Lawoiʼ_language
Phonology of the Dutch language
same kind of diphthongisation as /eː, oː/ and so they may be actually triphthongs with two closing elements [eɪu, oʊi] ([eːu] can instead be [eɪʋ], a closing
Dutch_phonology
Upper German dialect of Slovenia
i̯ɵː, i̯u, i̯uː, i̯ʉ, i̯ʉː, i̯ə Falling triphthongs: oai, uai, eau, iəu, ʉəu, oːai, uːai Rising-falling triphthongs: i̯ai, i̯au, i̯aʉ, i̯ea, i̯ei, i̯iə,
Gottscheerish
Austronesian language spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia
twelve diphthongs /iw ew uj oj əj əw aj aw iə̯ eə̯ uə̯ oə̯/ and two triphthongs /iə̯j iə̯w/. Kiput at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kiput_language
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
Girl/Female
Indian
Goddess Gayatri
Male
Hebrew
(גִּלְעָד) Hebrew name GILAD means "hard, stony region." In the bible, this is the name of region east of the Jordan River. It is also the name of several characters, including a grandson of Manasseh.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Draupadi
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lotus flower
Boy/Male
Arabic
Penalty; Reward
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Delighted
Male
Finnish
Pet form of Finnish Aatami, AATTO means "earth" or "red."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Elephant Faced; Ganesh
Biblical
field of light; light of the Almighty
Girl/Female
Gaelic American
Feminine of Kyle.
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
n.
Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.
n.
A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
a.
Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.