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What is the noun for diphthongizing?

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diphthong
  1. (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
  2. (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Having seen in my few years on this job many vowel-blend and diphthong transpositions, I can well believe someone wrote that.”
      “A closing diphthong ends closer than it begins, while an opening diphthong ends more open than it begins.”
      “In most contemporary dialects, it's a diphthong with a high front off-glide, so you might take it as mixed on the hot-or-not dimension.”
diphthongisation
  1. The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
  2. Examples:
    1. “This conlang is based on High Latin and derives its words from the latter by some rather original phonological processes, including diphthongisation and initial mutation.”
      “The most crucial aspects of the development of Faroese are diphthongisation and palatalisation.”
      “According to some scholars, the diphthongisation of e is an unconditioned sound change, whereas other scholars speak about epenthesis or umlaut.”
diphthongoid
  1. A vowel that is midway between a monophthong and a diphthong.
diphthongization
  1. Alternative spelling of diphthongisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “Nonetheless, a number of studies suggest that at least diphthongization and nasal and lateral depalatalization may be unproductive in Spanish.”
      “In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong.”
      “Vowel breaking or diphthongization is a vowel shift in which a monophthong becomes a diphthong.”
diphthongation
diphthongisations
  1. plural of diphthongisation
diphthongizations
  1. plural of diphthongization
diphthongations
  1. plural of diphthongation
diphthongoids
  1. plural of diphthongoid
diphthongs
  1. plural of diphthong
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He read most of the closed and silent-e-pattern words and had the most difficulty with vowel digraphs and diphthongs.”
      “The language has a musical quality and employs a great number of diphthongs and other vowel combinations.”
      “The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones.”
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