Stressed vowel breaking is very common in other languages. Swedish and Finnish both rely on it heavily. In Swedish it is generally denoted by a vowel followed b

Stressed vowel breaking is very common in other languages. Swedish and Finnish both rely on it heavily. In Swedish it is generally denoted by a vowel followed by a single consonant. For example, "tak" means "ceiling" and "tack" means "thank you". They are pronounced similarly but the "a" in "tak" is breaking and "a" in "tack" is non-breaking. In Finnish, breaking vowels are just repeated. For example, the name Miikael and Mikael having a slightly different pronunciation due to the breaking and non-breaking "i".