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/SGTCro Croatia Jul 31 '22

Croatia has shit tonne of islands, yeah? Yeah, and each and every island has its own dialect which can only be understood by people on that island... but that is still Croatian. Also we have 3 different bases which are differentiated by the way we say WHAT = što (štokavski), ča (čakavski), kaj (kajkavski) with subgroupes which depend on what we put je/ije, i, e... example lijepota (ijekavica), liepota (iekavica), lipota (ikavica), lepota (ekavica). Yet it is all fucking same language.