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Monophthong vs Diphthongs - What's the difference?

monophthong | diphthongs |

As nouns the difference between monophthong and diphthongs

is that monophthong is a vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre") while diphthongs is plural of lang=en.

monophthong

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /a?/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /a??/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").

    • Derived terms

    * monophthongal * monophthongization

    diphthongs

    English

    Noun

    (head)