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Anonymous
August 31, 2017

The pronunciation of "Viingge"

?Is the plural form of Viing pronounced like Viing-geh or Viing-gay? 

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Frinmulaar
August 31, 2017

From what I gather, you seem to be asking if the last vowel is a diphthong. Ideally, it should not be, so the mouth retains one shape throughout the sound. The whole standard pronunciation of 'viingge' consists of the following phonetic segments:

- a voiced labiodental fricative
- a close front unrounded vowel, lengthened
- a voiced velar nasal, lengthened
- a close-mid central unrounded vowel, short. Note that the audio example is errouneously a diphthong.