Vowel hiatus
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Diaeresis (linguistics)" redirects here. For the diacritic, see Diaeresis (diacritic).
In phonology, hiatus (/haɪˈeɪtəs/ hy-AY-təs) or diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -EER-;[1] also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part of a single syllable, the result is called a diphthong.