Recognize diphthongs and hiatuses

In this video I will explain how recognize and differentiate diphthongs from hiatuses. To do this, it will be necessary to be clear about what a diphthong is and what a hiatus is.

• Diphthong: is formed when two vowels are in the same syllable and they are pronounced in the same blow of voice.

• Hiatus: is when two vowels in a row are pronounced in two strokes of voice, that is, they are in two different syllables.

Adiphthong is a sound chain that consists of the articulation of two vowels, one after the other, without interruption and producing a smooth transition in the sound frequencies that characterize the timbres of each of the two vowels. Phonologically, two vowels articulated in this way are part of the same syllable. It is called diphthong when two vowels are pronounced together in a single syllable but, in addition, there are three types: increasing diphthong, ddecreasing ipthong and dhomogeneous ipthong.

Instead, a hiatus It occurs when two vowels in contact, that is to say that they are written one after the other, belong to different syllables. So they are pronounced interrupted, in two different syllables.

Here is a graph that explains how to better recognize diphthongs and hiatuses: