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What is a diphthongization?

What is a diphthongization? Here are some definitions.

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  1. Alternative spelling of diphthongisation
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Also, diphthongization in modern dialects has been leveled due to the widespread use of standard language.
Nonetheless, a number of studies suggest that at least diphthongization and nasal and lateral depalatalization may be unproductive in Spanish.
Vowel breaking or diphthongization is a vowel shift in which a monophthong becomes a diphthong.
The long u is absent because diphthongization into ui is a common feature of the North Estonian dialects.
Only Lorrainian and Low Hessian, of all the Rhine Franconian area, remained unaffected by diphthongization.
In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong.

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