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hiatus

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Also known as diaeresis, dieresis

occurrence of two vowel sounds in adjacent syllables, with no intervening consonant

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Instance of
phenomenon
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different from
diaeresis
opposite of
diphthong
Commons category
Vowel hiatus
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