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Ancient Greek phonology - Diphthongs | | Ancient Greek phonology - Diphthongs: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Greek phonology - Diphthongs | | Ancient Greek had a large number of diphthongs. All of them were closing diphthongs, ending in either /i/ or /u/ as a semi-vocalic offglide. The first element of the diphthong could either be short or long. This gives the following inventory:
The dipthongs (δίφθογγοι) developed differently during and after classical times. Two of them, ει and ου, had already b ...
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Ancient Greek phonology - Diphthongs
Ancient Greek had a large number of diphthongs. All of them were closing diphthongs, ending in either /i/ or /u/ as a semi-vocalic offglide. The first element of the diphthong could either be short or long. This gives the following inventory:
The dipthongs (δίφθογγοι) developed differently during and after classical times. Two of them, ει and ου, had already been monophthongized (see above). All the other front-offglide diphthongs were ultimately monophthongized too. This happened early, during or soon after the classical period, in the case of the long diphthongs ᾱι, ηι, ωι, where the offglide was muted and became represented in later orthography by a mere subscript (ᾳ, ῃ, ῳ). /ai/ αι was monophthongised to [εː] in post-classical Greek, and after the abandonment of vowel length in the Roman age, it eventually merged with /e/ ε. /oi/ (οι) and /yi/ (υι) merged with /yː/ (υ) (and in the Byzantine age finally with /i/ ι η ει).
In the remaining back diphthongs (αυ, ευ, ηυ), the offglide became consonantal during the Hellenistic age, ultimately leading to Modern Greek /av, ev, iv/ (before voiceless consonants /af, ef, if/). ωυ is rare and does not occur in classical Attic (but in Ionic).
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