Assertion: diphthong's vowel | /r/CapableOf | form diphthong
Facets:
value: with vowels
type: OTHER
value: with the tonic
type: OTHER
value: in later greek
type: LOCATION
value: normally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When two soft vowels form a diphthong, there is an emphasis on the second one.
text: In English, this word is one syllable, and the vowels actually form a diphthong.
text: You need 2 vowels to form a diphthong.
text: In some words we find two vowels that normally form a diphthong, but in this case do not.
text: In some cases a post-tonic vowel other than a is preserved in Catalan, as, for example, when that vowel forms a diphthong with the tonic (Deft, D e us; Ebriu, He bred s); or, again, it sometimes happens, when the tonic is followed by an i in hiatus, that the i persists (diliivi, dilfivium; servici, servicium; lbi, lbium; ciri, cereus); but in many cases these ought to be regarded as learned forms, as is shown by the existence of parallel ones, such as servey, where the atonic i has been attracted by the tonic and forms a diphthong with it (servIci, scrvii, serve)?).
text: Any vowel + ι or υ forms a diphthong.
text: In later Greek, the two vowels form a diphthong (synaeresis).
text: However, Zulu has two semi-vowels which form diphthongs with vowels:
text: However, Zulu has two semi-vowels which form diphthongs with vowels: