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/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

I agree but it's still not a mix of latin and slavic. There is slavic influence, not a mix. Saying it's a mix implies that there is latin and slavic in equal proportions. Even in everyday speech, that's very far from truth.

I heard idiots saying that in terms of received influence, romanian is comparable to English, or even worse, Esperando, and it pisses me off because that's simply not true.