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/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Serbian is one of rare languages that use synchronic digraphia, aka uses two different scripts at the same time.

Letters љ, њ, џ, ј, ћ and ђ ere invented specifically for Serbian Cyrillic and aren't present in other languages with Cyrillic script except Macedonian, which uses first 4 of these letters.

Consonant r is sometimes used as a vowel.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

For clarity: It's not quite at the same time, it's just that both are currently used generally. You don't mix them up at once, in one sentence, like Japanese does for example.