Also known as gliding vowel
thumb|American English pronunciation of "no highway cowboys" , showing five diphthongs:
A diphthong is a single vowel sound in speech that actually contains two different vowel sounds blended together, like the "ow" sound in "no" or the "oy" sound in "boy." Diphthongs matter because they're a key feature of how languages like English are actually pronounced, and understanding them helps explain why words sound the way they do.
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雙元音(diphthong)是一種複元音(compound vowel),又稱雙母音或二合複元音,在语音学中,指联合的两个元音,它们作为一个整体出现。之间有平滑的过渡,也就是說,雙元音中的發音牽涉到兩種不同的,並且從其中一種舌位滑動到另一舌位。在国际音标 (IPA) 中,单元音用一个字母表示,如[ʌ]。双元音用两个字母表示,如[aɪ],響度較低的字母可以加上 ̯ 符號以表示它是雙元音的一部份,例如 [aɪ̯]。
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