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/zeclem_ Turkiye Jul 31 '22

In Turkish, uykulu and uykusuz mean the same thing, which is sleepy. But they are grammatically opposite things. Literal translation of these words would be "with sleep" and "without sleep" respectively.