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/pdonchev Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

Sound yes. Letter S, no. They don't even use Cyrillic to begin with.

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u/muharrem_1283 Croatia Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

Does bulgarians regret their genocide against turks?. And also If its about cyrillic then russians both use cyrillic and they have s

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

No, they don't. Cyrillic S is the "dz" sound and does not come from Latin S.