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Of or relating to a complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable

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  • The distinctions might not be easy to find, but these 'higher order' signs are generally assumed to be either different diphthongal versions, or those with an aspirated...
  • During the greater part of this period, also, the diphthongal vowels ae are written separate.
  • In the speech of many, perhaps of most, Americans there is scarcely any trace of diphthongal quality in the sound.
  • Latin and was much more conservative of diphthongal sounds; it also used double consonants, which old Latin did not.
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