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Noun Concept
Categories: Vowel shifts
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vowel breaking  breaking  Broken vowel  diphthongisation  diphthongization
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In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Wikipedia
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In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Wikipedia
A historical linguistics term Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
sound law
HAS KIND
diphthongization
Newer breaking
Older breaking
Dongeradeel breaking
OPPOSITE OF
monophthongization
PRODUCT OR MATERIAL PRODUCED
diphthong
triphthong
Wikipedia
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vowel breaking
Wikidata
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vowel breaking
Wikipedia Redirections
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breaking (linguistics), Broken vowel, diphthongisation, diphthongization, Dipthongisation, vowel fracture
Wikidata Alias
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diphthongisation, diphthongization

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