adjective
- containing or pronounced as a diphthong; characterized by the combination of two vowel sounds in a single syllable
Usage: linguistics term; commonly used in phonetics and language study
Examples
- The word 'coin' contains a diphthonged vowel sound.
- In English, the letter combination 'oi' is typically diphthonged.
- The vowel in 'house' is diphthonged, not a pure single sound.
- Many Romance languages have fewer diphthonged vowels than English.
- Linguists study how diphthonged sounds vary across different dialects.