diphthong

<div align="center"><font face="simplified arabic" size="4"><span style="margin: 2px; float: left; width: 301px;"> </span></font></div><div style="min-height:"><font face="simplified arabic" size="4"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><font size="5"><em><strong>In <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,phonetics/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,phonetics', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">phonetics</a>, a</strong> <strong>diphthong (also</strong> <strong>gliding vowel) (<a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,Ancient%20Greek/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,Ancient%20Greek', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greek</a> δίφθογγος, "diphthongos", literally "with two sounds," or "with two tones") is a <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,syllable/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,syllable', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">monosyllabic</a> <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,vowel/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,vowel', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vowel</a> combination involving a <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,glissando/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,glissando', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">quick but smooth movement</a> from one vowel to another, often interpreted by listeners as a single vowel sound or <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,phoneme/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,phoneme', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">phoneme</a>. While "pure" vowels, or <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,monophthong/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,monophthong', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">monophthongs</a>, are said to have one target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions. Pure vowels are represented in the <a href="http://adf.ly/330861/bword://%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,International%20Phonetic%20Alphabet/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', '%21%21ARV6FUJ2JP,International%20Phonetic%20Alphabet', '/']);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> by one symbol: English "sum" as , for example. Diphthongs are represented by two symbols, for example English "same" as , where the two vowel symbols are intended to represent approximately the beginning and ending tongue positions.<img alt="" border="0" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.english4arab.net/vb/images/smilies/img022.gif" title="uyy"></strong></em></font></font></font></div>