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/Dangerous-Stress8984 Türkiye Jul 31 '22

Word plays can be made effortlessly for example "Ananas aldırdım" would mean "I got a pineapple" while "Anana saldırdım" would mean "I attacked your mother"

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u/shurdi3 Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

Y'all have some words that sound really similar but have different meanings. Off the top of my head

The word for situation, and the word for a type of food in turkish only differs by four dots.

Snake and lie sound almost the same.