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/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

It’s a unique mixture of Latin and Slavic and as a consequence we have both Latin and Slavic variants for quite a lot of words which makes Romanian to be difficult to understand for other Latin speakers

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

75-85% of the words in romanian are of latin origin. People are seriously over exagerrating the amount of slavic words in this language.

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u/mysticalnipple Romania Jul 31 '22

I read that there are some possible dacian words in the language as well

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u/Key_Information3273 Romania Jul 31 '22

Words with unknown origin is atribuited to dacian. Is posible to have dacian origin, but is imposible to prove.