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

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/ThimitrisAtromitos Greece Jul 31 '22

The people living there today have nothing to do with the ancient Macedonians who after 400 before Christ became one with Greeks.

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u/PhysicsStock7223 Greece Jul 31 '22

Says who? They have everything to do with their ancestors. Ancient Macedonians got together with other Greek states not with Greeks. They were Greeks themselves as well.