A complex speech sound or perhaps glide that starts with just one Slovenian vowel and slowly develops to a different Slovenian vowel within the exact same syllable, just as (oi) in boil or (i) in fine. A diphthong in Slovenian language (literally means “two sounds” or “two tones”), also referred to as a gliding vowel. Slovenian diphthong is regarded as two neighboring vowel sounds occurring within the exact syllable.
Technically, a Slovenian diphthong is known as a vowel with two completely different objectives – that is, your tongue moves in the course of the pronunciation of your vowel. Learn More
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The Slovene diphthongs are generally considered phonemically as combinations of two phonemes, a vowel and /j/ or a vowel and [w] (often written as [u]. The Slovene phonetic diphthongs are [ew, Ew, aw, Ow, ej, oj, Oj, aj, uj]. The diphthongs [aw] and [aj] can safely be used as equivalents of the English /aU/ and /aI/. | |
aj | Like the word "eye" |
ej | Like 'ay' in "pay" |
oj | Like 'oy' in "toy" |
uj | Like 'wee' in "week" |
ae | Like 'a' in "father" and 'e' in "empty" |
ija | Like 'ia' in "Lydia" |
ije | Like 'ie' in the Spanish word "miedo" |
nje | similar to the Spanish sound 'ñe' in "muñeco" [nyeh] |
lj | as 'lee' in "leek" |
dja | as the 'dia' in "Lydia" [dyah] |
kje | as the quie' in the Spanish word "quiero" [kyeh] |
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