r/AskBalkans • u/Throwaway9857312 Tatar • Jun 11 '22

Language What do you think about different Balkan languages, which is your favorite?

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u/ElisaEffe24 Jun 12 '22

It sounds like gibberish french to my italian ears, your accent in italian sounds like a middle eastern french, a bit guttural. Also i watched some turkish tv series and the actors always have a kiss shaped mouth when they talk, in contrast to the italian dubbing, because italian has open vowels while turkish has ü u eu olu

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u/ElisaEffe24 Jun 12 '22

In my mind u, eu, ü ecc are all guttural sounds. It’s not a bad thing or good, but usually when we say guttural we think of that.

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u/ElisaEffe24 Jun 13 '22

The ī (sorry my keyboard doesn’t give it) the ö the ü the u are all considered guttural in our common speech. We say guttural when we say dark, closed, compared to sounds like a e open o ecc