Some unstressed short vowels have been elided. These consonants may be variably elided or conserved. The three unstressed vowels are reduced and often voiceless or elided in fast speech. Long vowels within words usually signal that a consonant has been elided word-internally. When the elided consonant was "n", it often nasalized the preceding vowel&colon; cf. Some elided syllables in English are pronounced in SLE. Voiced fricatives are often pronounced as approximants and they are regularly elided when intervocalic. Syllable-final is often elided and results in the preceding vowel nasalized and prolonged, especially word-finally. It differs from ' in that it is elided after a preceding vowel. The vowel is often elided in connected speech (it is not present in Brazilian Portuguese). The vowel will only be elided if the word's stem begins with a "stronger" vowel. Long vowels are , or where they are due to an elided . It was elided regularly when a word beginning with a vowel came next. Sequim is pronounced as one syllable, with the "e" elided&colon; "skwim". In Estonian, the genitive marker "-n" has elided with respect to Finnish.