In Helsinki slang, the slang used by some, more rarely nowadays, in Helsinki, the voiced stops are found in native words even in positions which are not the result of consonant gradation, e.g. 's/he walked' (← native verb root "talla-"), 'to understand' (← Russian понимать). In the Southwestern dialects of Rauma-Eurajoki-Laitila area, , and are commonplace, since the voicing of nasals spread to phonemes , and , making them half-voiced, e.g. ← "sentään" or ← "niin kuin". They are also found in those coastal areas where Swedish influenced the speech.