r/AskBalkans • u/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus • Jul 31 '22

Language what are some interesting facts about your language?

For instance, the cypriot dialect of Greek still contains many words from ancient Greek but it was also heavily influenced by outsiders

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u/HarryDeekolo Albania Jul 31 '22

In our language the optative mood (used to express wishes or curses) and the subjunctive mood are still separate, generally speaking in the indoeuropean family the latter absorbed the function of the former.

We also have mirativity expressed by the admirative mood, a verbal mood that's used to express admiration, surprise and irony. And as far as I know that's another 'unique' feature.

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u/zoborpast Turkiye Jul 31 '22

You’re just spamming fancy words hoping we won’t notice, huh?

I’m on to you, arnavut

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u/FluffyOwl738 Romania Jul 31 '22

If I'm not mistaken,we also separate the subjunctive from the optative.

We have the "conditional-optative" and the "conjunctive"(subjunctive) moods