Diphthong vs Umlaut - What's the difference?
diphthong | umlaut |
(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),
(linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
(linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic l?siz'' > Old English ''l?s(i) > Modern English lice).
(linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
(orthography) The diacritical mark ( ) placed over a vowel, usually when it indicates such assimilation.
To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
(linguistics) To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
As nouns the difference between diphthong and umlaut
is that diphthong is a complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable while umlaut is an assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.As a verb umlaut is
to place an umlaut over (a vowel).diphthong
English
(wikipedia diphthong)Noun
(en noun)- For example: "ae", "au", "ou"
page 47:
- 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 .
Derived terms
* diphthongal * diphthongize * diphthongization * diphthongoidSee also
* glide * ligatureumlaut
English
Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* Although this symbol has the same form as the diaeresis/dieresis, it has as a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable. The term for the diacritic mark, as opposed to its function, is trema . * When spelling a German word out loud, one can say “(vowel) umlaut” or “umlauted (vowel)”. e.g. “a umlaut” or “umlauted a” (). (German practice is to say “a Umlaut”, or more commonly to pronounce the letters, so the name of "Ä" is [??], just as "A" is [a?] and "B" is [be?].) * In alphabetic orders, "ä, ö, ü" are treated as "a, o, u" in German (so the word comes directly after the word lugen). In other languages, such as Swedish, the umlaut letters may have their own position in the alphabet. * The usual English plural is umlauts, but the form umlaute (after the German) has seen some use. It is quite rare, however.Synonyms
* (orthography) (l) * (linguistics) (l)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- an umlauting vowel