| 21. | Many centering diphthongs are also opening diphthongs (, ).
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| 22. | Many centering diphthongs are also opening diphthongs (, ).
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| 23. | The opening diphthongs come from earlier long mid vowels :.
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| 24. | In certain dialects, some of the long vowels are actually diphthongs.
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| 25. | The " e " orientation is used for the diphthong.
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| 26. | It follows that there are 24 possible diphthongs in Marshallese:
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| 27. | Morphological treatment of diphthongs is essentially similar to long vowels.
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| 28. | The second element of the diphthongs is considered a consonant or semivowel.
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| 29. | Patterns of diphthongs of long vowels occur in three major dialect groups.
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| 30. | A third type of distinctive diphthongs occur in the dialects of Gotland.
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