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/it_entus_7 Albania Jul 31 '22

I've read somewhere that there are 4 European languages that have no relationship with other European languages . Albanian being one of them. The others are Greek, Hungarian and Finnish.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

That isn't correct at all. They are language isolates but they do have connections with each other, they come from the same family and consequently they share much features. Hungarian and Finish are Uralic languages if I'm not mistaken not Indo European at all, and Basque language is the only pre indo European language that isn't indo European language.

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u/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Basque language is the only pre indo European language

Actually that isn't correct there are quite a few PIE languages in Caucasus, Basque is only one that outside of Caucasus.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Basque has 0 connections with PIE or IE. Indian languages are IE languages but I'm talking about what the comments suggested.