and for standard , , and . When both would be unstressed, the otherwise bisyllabic combinations of o/ö/e followed by a/ä are produced as monosyllabic long vowels when no consonant intervenes. For instance, Savonian dialects have for "brown", and have for "plowing (partitive)". (This change is not specific to Savonian dialects and is found in most forms of spoken Finnish today.) An epenthetic vowel is inserted after a medial syllable coda of , or, in certain cases, , e.g. (standard "old"). The epenthetic vowel is often identical in quality to the preceding vowel. However, if the first of the non-epenthetic vowels is high and the second is low, the epenthetic vowel may be mid (but preserves the roundness specification of the preceding vowel). Thus and are different Savonian forms for standard Finnish "eye", and and are Savonian version of "cold". Consonants Savonian dialects have re-developed palatalized consonants (which were lost in Proto-Finnic). The consonants that can be palatalized are those that are coronal: l, n, t, r, s. Palatalization of these consonants occurs word-finally, in contexts where a consonant is followed by in standard Finnish. Orthographically, palatalization is often denoted by , where C is the palatalized consonant. Examples include and (standard Finnish , ). Singleton consonants are geminated when they occur after a (primarily or secondarily) stressed short syllable and before a long vowel. Thus replace standard . This gemination is fed by the process described point 3 of the preceding section: Native Savonians do not say that they speak ; they say that they speak ( ). In the eastern Savonian dialects, this gemination is more general; it applies to non-singleton consonants (, cf. standard ), to consonants that don't ordinarily participate in the consonant gradation process, and after unstressed short vowels (, cf. standard }). The word-final of standard Finnish corresponds to a variety of consonants in Savo, depending on the environment in which it occurs. When the next word begins with a vowel, /n/ is replaced with a glottal stop . For example, the genitive case, marked by in the standard language, is marked with a glottal stop in the Savonian phrase (standard "father's voice"). Word-final assimilates to consonants that follow it, yielding a geminate consonant; contrasts with standard . Unlike standard Finnish, Savonian Finnish permits gemination of and , which gives examples like (standard ) in addition. All syllable-initial consonants except the last one (which