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.
Uralic–Yukaghir languages the expression, as "*ne e-m mene" 'not be-me go' etc. What made it possible to drop the negative particle was that there was no morphological or syntactic possibility of confusing the expression with the positive verb, which had the form 1s. "*mene-m", 2s. "*mene-t"; 1p. "*mene-me", 2p. "*mene-te" (still preserved without change in Finnish, except for final "*-m" > "-n") 'I go', etc. The dropping of the negative particle is well-attested by such expressions as French "pas", "personne", "rien" and Old Norse "engi", "eigi" (ib.). Pedersen’s argument implies that the Uralic negative verb is very ancient, for three reasons: (1)