Describing diphthongs
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 6, 2004, 23:57 |
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I only recall seeing diphthongs described like vowels once, and I might be
misremembering. So without any terminology to use to describe diphthongs in
my languages, I invented my own, e.g.
/ja/: prepalatalized low back unrounded vowel;
/aw/: labialized low back unrounded vowel;
etc. Do these terms even make sense (to me they do, but I'm not a linguist
so I'm probably wrong)? If not, what are some better terms?
Thanks,
Trebor
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