Belonging to a diphthong; consisting of two vowel-sounds pronounced in one syllable.

adjective. Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

adjective. Pertaining to a diphthong.

"Darya Kavitskaya in Compensatory Lengthening: Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony (2002) relates her own story about perceptual metathesis on page 48 in footnote 8: "Indeed, in teaching Russian to American students, I noticed many instances of palatalization of the consonant being heard as some kind of diphthongal property of the preceding vowel, for example, [banʲa] 'bath' was misheard and pronounced as [baʲnʲa] or even [bajna]." (link here)."

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