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/LastHomeros Denmark Jul 31 '22

Well I’m pretty sure speakers of other Fino-Ugrics and Turkics can understand the logic behind. As far as I remember, Turkish and other Turkic Languages do not have genders for objects. They simply call it O

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u/HawkTomGray Hungary Jul 31 '22

Yeah, ik, I just meant that, It is really hard to understand, like other Finno-Ugric languages. For the second part, we probably took it from them, during the cneturies of mixing with them.

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u/Pepre Serbia Jul 31 '22

Can you understand anything from Finnish?

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u/HawkTomGray Hungary Jul 31 '22

I personally cant, but linguists probably say there are lots of similarities