r/finnougric • u/Beneficial-Bowl-3421 • Jun 26 '25
The székely dialect
The székely people and their dialect of hungarian can be found mainly in eastern Transylvania, and I'm a székely myself. I have recently got into studying other finno-ugric languages, and I realised that this dialect shares more phonetic similarities with other finno ugric languages than standard hungarian does. I always used it, altrough I never noticed it since now that székely often use the ä sound instead of the e when speaking. This solely doesn't really say much about any linguistic realtion, but according to the legend, the székely moved into the carpathian basin before the hungarians, with the huns. Also there aren't any languages in the region that have the ä sound, so I thought I'd share this thought of mine and see what you think!
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u/Milan-77 Jun 27 '25
Actually I’ve noticed (as a Hungarian) that some Hungarians here in Hungary are starting to say e as a sound like ä. Probably unrelated but I thought I’d mention it.