triphthong

Definitions

1. A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.
2. A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel.

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Examples

“In Lang Belta vowels usually appear⟳ preceding or following a consonant (see⟳ previous examples), and as of now no occurrence of diphthongs or triphthongs has been attested.”

“Before moving on to a solution, it may be worth emphasizing that nouns of the صلوه type⟳ originally contained a triphthong. […] In addition to evidence from the Safaitic inscriptions, the discovery of the Graeco-Arabic inscription A1 (Al-Jallad and al-Manaser 2015), where the verb ’tw ‘he came’ is written αθαοα /’atawa/, confirms this to be the case for Old Arabic as well.”

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