Triphthongs that feature close elements typically analyzed as and in phonology are not listed. For instance, the
Polish word 'tallow' is typically analyzed as - a sequence of a consonant followed by a vowel and another consonant. This is because the palatal approximant is resyllabified in some inflected forms, such as (instr. pl.), and also because occurs word-finally after a consonant just like does (compare 'industry' with '
Przemyśl'), which means that both of them behave more like consonants than vowels. On the other hand, are not treated as phonetic consonants when they arise from vocalization of , or as they do not share almost all of their
features with those three.
First segment is the nucleus Bernese German Bernese German has the following triphthongs: • as in 'boy' • as in 'feeling' • as in 'school' They have arisen due to the vocalization of in the syllable coda; compare the last two with Standard German and , the last one with a schwa not present in the Bernese word.
Danish Danish has the following triphthongs: • as in 'ferry' • as in 'to whirl' • as in , a given name • as in 'sparrow'
English In British
Received Pronunciation, and most other
non-rhotic (r-dropping) varieties of English, monosyllabic triphthongs with
r are optionally distinguished from sequences with disyllabic realizations: • as in:
flour (compare with disyllabic "flower" ) • as in:
hire (compare with disyllabic "higher" ) • as in:
coir (compare with disyllabic "coyer" ),
loir (compare with disyllabic "lawyer" ) are sometimes transcribed as , or similarly. As and become and respectively before , most instances of and are words with the suffix "-er", such as
player and
slower. Less commonly, triphthongs appear as an inseparable part of a word, as in
iron,
society, or
sour. Other instances are from loanwords or words derived from foreign sources, such as
aorist,
boa, and
choir. A unique aspect of
English triphthongs, as compared to other sequences of three
vowels, is their shared tendency to undergo reduction via a process known as
smoothing.
Second segment is the nucleus Spanish: • as in 'ox' • as in 'Uruguay' • as in 'you [informal plural] change' • as in 'that you [informal plural] may change' The last two are mostly restricted to European Spanish. In
Latin American Spanish (which has no distinct form), the corresponding words are and , with a rising-opening diphthong followed by a nasal stop and initial, rather than final stress. In phonology, are analyzed as a monosyllabic sequence of three vowels: . In
Help:IPA/Spanish, those triphthongs are transcribed : , , , ==See also==