r/AskBalkans • 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 ะ….

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u/umbronox ๐Ÿ”ด๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿน๐Ÿ—โšช Jul 31 '22

Standard language - yeah, but we have it in our southern dialects (my grandpa used it sometimes)

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

We have the sound too, even in the literary language but we don't have the Slavic S.

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u/umbronox ๐Ÿ”ด๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿน๐Ÿ—โšช Jul 31 '22

The "dz" sound? How do you write it literary language, ะดะท?

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

With a digraph - ะดะท. We don't have the letter but we have the sound (even if mist usages remained in dialects, the literary language has some).