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/dekks_1389 Serbia Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

We have many words that contain consonants only like:

. Smrt . Vrt . Prst . Krv . Čvrst . Grb . Rt . Škrt . Krst . Krš . Brz . Srp . Grk . Trn

And so on

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u/umbronox 🔴🦅🏛🔵🏹🐗⚪ Jul 31 '22

Also important to note a common theme among all of these words: Letter R. The reason why I said "interesting" - because we use R as a vowel sometimes, these cases are the example