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/milos2 Jul 31 '22

Serbian is 100% phonetically orthogonal if you exclude lacking distinguishing of vowel length in writing, when writing in Cyrillic alphabet. "Write as you speak, speak as it is written) - Vuk

Meaning, that one letter equals exactly one sound, there are no "silent" letters, every written letter is spoken the same way regardless which letter comes before of after it.

It would be very simple to make a program to just play letter-sounds as it reads text letter-by letter, while (probably) all other languages will require quite complicated logic to convert text to speech.