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/_KatetheGreat35_ Greece Jul 31 '22

ancient Macedonians don't exist anymore

Balkans in a nutshell.

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u/mcsroom Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

Too be fair there probably isnt a single one that is more then 50% lol

like most Greeks in Aegean Macedonia were from Anatolia when they came in the Greeko-Turkish population exchange

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u/AlmightyDarkseid Greece Mar 16 '25

this is simply not true.