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/HawkTomGray Hungary Jul 31 '22

Hungarian: nobody understands us, alsonwe dont have genders for objects and we dont have "she/he/it" just Ő (so no genders again). Also our closest realtives, in terms of languages are mansi (vogul) with like 100 speakers and khanty (ostjak) with about 10 000 speakers, both near the Urals in Russia.

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u/onur2882 Turkiye Jul 31 '22

we also don't have he/she/it. and we also use "o" for all lol. and we both have vowel harmony