{"id":40,"date":"2006-04-19T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-diphthong\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:45:18","slug":"diphthong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; diphthong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diphthong<\/strong>, noun = a vowel sound, occupying a single syllable, during the articulation of which the tongue moves from one position to another, causing a continual change in vowel quality. For example, the ou in doubt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Origin<\/strong>: from Latin <em>diphthongus<\/em>, from Greek <em>\u03b4\u03af\u03c6\u03b8\u03bf\u03b3\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 (diphthongos)<\/em> &#8211; with two sounds, which is made up of <em>\u03b4\u03af\u03c6\u03c5\u03b5\u03c2 (diphues)<\/em> &#8211; twofold and <em>\u03c6\u03b8\u03bf\u03b3\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 (phthongos)<\/em> &#8211; sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\ndiphthongize, verb = to make (a simple vowel) into a diphthong<\/p>\n<p>monophthong, noun =  a simple or pure vowel<\/p>\n<p>triphthong, noun = a composite vowel sound during the articulation of which the vocal organs move from one position, through another and ending in a third<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese word for diphthong is \u4e8c\u91cd\u5143\u97f3 (\u00e8rzh\u00f2ngyu\u00e1nyin) or \u96d9\u5143\u97f3 (shuangyu\u00e1nyin), which literally mean &#8220;two weight vowel&#8221; and &#8220;twin vowel&#8221;. \u5143\u97f3 (vowel) means literally &#8220;primary\/fundamental\/basic sound&#8221;. This demonstrates a fundamental difference between English and Chinese: many words from other languages are used in English, and technical, scientific and medical terms are often cobbled together from Greek and\/or Latin roots. However in Chinese, there are very few foreign loanwords and most words are made up of native roots. If you didn&#8217;t know the meaning of diphthong you could only guess it if you knew Greek, whereas you could probably work out the meaning of \u4e8c\u91cd\u5143\u97f3 even if you had never seen it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diphthong, noun = a vowel sound, occupying a single syllable, during the articulation of which the tongue moves from one position to another, causing a continual change in vowel quality. For example, the ou in doubt. Origin: from Latin diphthongus, from Greek \u03b4\u03af\u03c6\u03b8\u03bf\u03b3\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 (diphthongos) &#8211; with two sounds, which is made up of \u03b4\u03af\u03c6\u03c5\u03b5\u03c2 (diphues) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}