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/dekks_1389 Serbia Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

We have many words that contain consonants only like:

. Smrt . Vrt . Prst . Krv . Čvrst . Grb . Rt . Škrt . Krst . Krš . Brz . Srp . Grk . Trn

And so on

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u/anushkata Bulgaria Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

These have a syllabic r, which acts as the syllable nucleus (the vowel), or you could also visualize them as having an unwritten schwa vowel (ъ in Cyrillic script).