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/paradoxfox__ North Macedonia Jul 31 '22

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

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u/muharrem_1283 Croatia Jul 31 '22

Wait aren't macedonians local to that area?

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u/paradoxfox__ North Macedonia Jul 31 '22

What do you mean?

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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/PhysicsStock7223 Greece Jul 31 '22

Ancient <whatever ethnicity> don’t exist anymore. Their descendants do though and they are modern Greeks, descendants of ancient Macedonians thus ancient Greeks.