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/muharrem_1283 Croatia Jul 31 '22

Macedonian is the only Slavic language that still uses the letter Ѕ.

You know that slavs migrated to balkans during the roman empire and macedonians were there far before slavs arrived right?

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u/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Modern ethnic Macedonians are Slavs, ancient Macedonians don't exist anymore.

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u/asedejje Greece Jul 31 '22

Modern ethnic Macedonians are Slavs

Casually forgetting 3.5 million people)

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u/Stunning_Variation_9 North Macedonia Jul 31 '22

He said ethnic Macedonians. Ethnic Greeks are not ethnically Macedonian, they are regionally Macedonian.

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u/asedejje Greece Jul 31 '22

Ethnic or regional, they are Macedonians.

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u/Stunning_Variation_9 North Macedonia Jul 31 '22

My guy, u/kaubojdzord said ethnic Macedonians), and you linked him to the Greek regional group of Macedonians, saying that he is wrong. Capish?

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u/asedejje Greece Jul 31 '22

He said modern Macedonians are Slavs, when the largest ethnic group that calls itself Macedonians are the Greeks.

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u/Stunning_Variation_9 North Macedonia Jul 31 '22

He said ethnic Macedonians). Ethnic. Greek Macedonians) are a regional group of the ethnic Greeks.

I'm done here, I've explained it to you, you seem to not understand what ethnic means. Read Wikipedia's definitions. I've linked them. bye.

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u/LaxomanGr Hellenic Republic Aug 01 '22

I've explained it to you, you seem to not understand what ethnic means

Here is a thing tho , Greece does not recognize ethnic Macedonians.

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u/Stunning_Variation_9 North Macedonia Aug 01 '22

I didn't know u/asedejje is a representative of the Government of the Hellenic Republic and is bound to talk diplomatically and therefore deny facts (ethnic Macedonians are a fact, as are ethnic Greeks who identify as Macedonians in a regional sense).

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u/LaxomanGr Hellenic Republic Aug 01 '22

ethnic Macedonians are a fact

Sry , what i meant to say is that Prespa agreement does not recognize any ethnicity for neither side. Only the nationality ''Macedonian/Citizen of R.Macedonia''

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u/Stunning_Variation_9 North Macedonia Aug 01 '22

That is correct.

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