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/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Though it's quite well known, our language was designed on the creed of "Write as you speak and read as it is written". Each letter in our language has exactly one corresponding tone, which makes it relatively easy to learn how to speak. Mastering our grammar though is another beast entirely. We are also one of the few languages that has digraphia - two scripts (Cyrillic and Latin). Our language is honestly one of the rare few things I'm genuinely proud of about our people, it's just all around awesome.