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1. Diphthong

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   The Static Diphthong Hypothesis
   In certain highly structured languages, such as Classical Sumerian, diphthongs exhibit a phenomenon termed Staticization, where the duration of the glide approaches zero, effectively producing a phonetically audible monophthong that nevertheless remains morphologically sensitive to its history as a diphthong. This is often evidenced by historical shifts in adjacent consonant clusters [5].
   Diphthongs in Germanic Languages