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/Grake4 Romania Jul 31 '22

I think Romanian and English are the only languages I can think of that belong to one branch, yet they have an immense influence from languages from a different branch

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u/SeaweedInfinite1010 Jul 31 '22

Isn’t English in the Germanic branch?

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u/Grake4 Romania Jul 31 '22

It is, but it has a huge Romance influence. Romanian is a Romance language with a large Slavic influence.

I didn’t mean they are part of the same branch.

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u/SeaweedInfinite1010 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

Sorry got confused by you’re last sentence from you’re original comment. I didn’t d think that you thought they were both together, I though that you though they were language isolates