Triphthong/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Triphthong.

Monosyllabic sound which functions as a single phoneme and is most of the time regarded as a single sound (i.e. as some kind of vowel), while it is actually a succession of three distinct successive sounds, each of them having its own quality.