Regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and other Uralic languages 'fish', 'winter', 'flat', 'to push', 'bosom' listed above. Further examples include (:) 'honey', 'liver', 'eye', (:) 'to plait', 'to see', 'sinew', (:) 'tear', 'palate', 'arrow', 'to lick' listed above. Word-internally a correspondence Hungarian : Finnic is also found, as seen in 'broth', 'name', and 'heart'. Regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and other Uralic languages There are numerous regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and the other Uralic languages. For example, Hungarian "á" corresponds to Khanty "o" in certain positions, and Hungarian "h" corresponds to Khanty "x", while Hungarian final "z" corresponds to Khanty final "t". These can be seen in Hungarian
Finnish phonology stressed) or "luo" 'towards'. This might make them easier to pronounce as true opening diphthongs (in some accents even wider opening ) and not as centering diphthongs , which are more common in the world's languages. The opening diphthongs come from earlier long mid vowels: . Since that time new long mid vowels have come to the language from various sources. Among the phonological processes operating in Finnish dialects are diphthongization and diphthong reduction. For example, Savo Finnish has the phonemic contrast of vs. vs. instead of standard language contrast of vs. vs. . Finnish, like many other Uralic languages,