Phoneme vs Diphthong - What's the difference?
phoneme | diphthong |
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
(phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
(rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
* 1854 , Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby , Woodfall and Kinder,
* 1860 , Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language , A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers),
* 1874 , Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book , John Murray (publisher),
As nouns the difference between phoneme and diphthong
is that phoneme is while diphthong is diphthong.phoneme
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* * * phonemic * phonemical * phonemically * phonemicist * phonemicsSee also
* chereme * chroneme * grammeme * grapheme * lemma * lexeme * listeme * morpheme * sememe * tonemeExternal links
* (wikipedia "phoneme")Anagrams
*diphthong
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(wikipedia diphthong)Noun
(en noun)- For example: "ae", "au", "ou"
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- And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
page 12:
- An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea'' in ''heat'', ''oa'' in ''coal .
page 3:
- The diphthong ae'' is sounded like ''?'' (§7); that is, it has the sound of ''ey'' in ''they .