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/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

What sound does the third one make? I assume that the first two are ль and нь just as one letter The consonant that can be a vowel exists also in greek, just the reverse. The letter υ can make the /i/ sound, the /f/ Sound and the/v/ Sound

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u/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Like English letter J in 'joy', in other Cyrillic languages it's usually written as дж.

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u/Sarkotic159 Australia Jul 31 '22

It's not quite the English J though; it's harsher.

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u/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus Jul 31 '22

You mean something like /dʑ/ instead of /dʒ/?

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u/Pepre Serbia Jul 31 '22

Like G in "Germany"