Editing Vowel harmony (section)

======Vowel length======
In Hungarian language there are long, and short vowels
* There are long, and short vowel pairs which are indicated using accents in writing in all but four exceptions with the exceptions possibly be either long, or short as well
* The four exceptions are {{lang|hu|'''a'''}} [{{ipa|ɒ}}], {{lang|hu|'''á'''}} [{{ipa|a:}}], {{lang|hu|'''e'''}} [{{ipa|ɛ}}], {{lang|hu|'''é'''}} [{{ipa|e:}}]
Long vowels compared to short ones are quiet simply voiced for a longer period of time. Hungarian long vowels are '''two''' units long compared to other Uralic language Finnish's '''three''' units long vowels. In order for two vowels to be '''long-short pairs''', the long vowel pronounced short must be '''identical''' to its short pair, and vice-versa. In the case of the '''four exceptions''', this is '''not''' applicable because - contrary to their written form - the four exceptions are '''not''' two pairs of long, and short vowels, but vowels with pronunciation difference that is '''not only the length'''

In writing the long of such vowel pairs are marked with stick-like accents most of the time compared to its dot-accented, or non-accented versions
* For example {{lang|hu|pap'''í'''r}} is often pronounced [{{ipa|pɒ'''ppi'''r}}] (double "p" intentional) instead of [{{ipa|pɒ'''pi:'''r}}]
In the four exceptions case the stick-like accent ({{lang|hu|'''á'''}} [{{ipa|a:}}], {{lang|hu|'''é'''}} [{{ipa|e:}}]) refer to long length most if not all the time
* ''Note - while stick like accents mark long - double dot, and double stick accents mark [[Vowel harmony#Vowel cleft lipness|'''cleft lip''']] pronunciation (approaching [{{ipa|ɛ}}] sound)''
In practice these long and short vowels sometimes lengthen, or shorten due to agglutinations. Most if not all the time this change is with written difference (meaning that the accent becomes different according)
* {{lang|hu|h'''í'''d}} - {{lang|hu|h'''i'''dak}} - in this case the pronunciation is according to the words are written (long in the first, short in the second word)
It can happen that an exceptional vowel is gaining, or losing an accent regardless of it not being the long, or the short pair of the other
* {{lang|hu|f'''é'''l}} - {{lang|hu|f'''e'''lek}} - in this case the pronunciation is according to the words are written (long in the first, short in the second word), '''yet''' these are '''not''' long, and short pairs
* {{lang|hu|f'''a'''}} - {{lang|hu|f'''á'''k}} - in this case the pronunciation is according to the words are written (short in the first, long in the second word), '''yet''' these are '''not''' short, and long pairs