Meaning of pentaphthong | Babel Free

Definitions

A sequence of five vowels pronounced as, or almost as, a single syllable.

rare

Examples

“Fifty-six diphthongal combinations may be made from the eight vowel elements, four of which, though, we find to be necessarily triphthongs, two tetraphthongs, and one a pentaphthong.”

“Try saying the Dutch word Leeuwen some time. At least a pentaphthong...”

“Someone once claimed that Pres. Coolidge ( a Vermonter) pronounced the vowel in "cow" as a pentaphthong.”

“Phonetically, [j] is meaningless, it's the same as an [i]. So what we have here is a pentaphthong: ui@iu.”

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