Italian language
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Triphthongs always contain a semivowel. In miei the first i is a semivocalic 'y' sound, /j/; in tuoi, the u functions as a /w/. The i is a semivowel also in the first person plural of some verbs: continuiamo, dissanguiamo. Noia and febbraio have the sequence vowel-semivowel-vowel . And in the four-vowel sequence of aiuola ('flowerbed') the "u" is a semivowel, /w/.