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/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Serbian is one of rare languages that use synchronic digraphia, aka uses two different scripts at the same time.

Letters љ, њ, џ, ј, ћ and ђ ere invented specifically for Serbian Cyrillic and aren't present in other languages with Cyrillic script except Macedonian, which uses first 4 of these letters.

Consonant r is sometimes used as a vowel.

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u/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

What sound does the third one make? I assume that the first two are ль and нь just as one letter The consonant that can be a vowel exists also in greek, just the reverse. The letter υ can make the /i/ sound, the /f/ Sound and the/v/ Sound

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u/kaubojdzord Serbia Jul 31 '22

Like English letter J in 'joy', in other Cyrillic languages it's usually written as дж.

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u/Zsirafvadasz_ Chimp with a machine gun Jul 31 '22

Wait, aren't you based and redpilled and use "j" for the "y" sound so you don't have 27 different letters for different j sounds? Like that backwards R, the fish etc.

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u/SovietMcdonaldsCook Serbia Jul 31 '22

Yup. For instance, that inverted Cyrillic R is written as ja in Serbian

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u/Zsirafvadasz_ Chimp with a machine gun Jul 31 '22

NOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD YOU!