Trebor Jung wrote:
> 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?
I think where vowels are concerned, "labialized" is synonymous with
"rounded".