Regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and other Uralic languages 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 "ház" ("house") and Khanty "xot" ("house"), or Hungarian "száz" ("hundred") and Khanty "sot" ("hundred"). Hungarian and Khanty are closely connected, either genealogically or as part of a language area. The distance between Hungarian and the Finnic languages is greater, but the correspondences are also regular.
Finnic languages Finnic languages The Finnic languages (Fennic), or Baltic Finnic languages (Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic), are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by Finnic peoples, mainly in Finland and Estonia, by about 7 million people. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. The major modern representatives of the family are Finnish and Estonian, the official languages of their respective nation states. The other Finnic languages in the Baltic Sea region are Ingrian and Votic, spoken in Ingria by the Gulf of Finland; and Livonian, once spoken around the Gulf of Riga. Spoken farther northeast are Karelian, Ludic