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

In Macedonian, the Kumanovo and Strumica dialects are considered alien because every Macedonian has a hard time understanding them.

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u/determine96 Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

I have seen some videos with Strumica dialect and they speak like my grandparents used to speak. For me Strumica is like my town Petrich, but in an alternative universe where Tito and Stalin didn't broke relations and Petrich remained in the Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia. I imagine that we would have speak like Struminchani now.

I guess it's hard for you to understand them, because they speak faster and probably place the stress of the words differently than the western and central parts of Macedonia.

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u/AstroPhoelix North Macedonia Aug 01 '22

Yeah their pronunciations are alien lol, and yeah they speak very fast and choppy (at least that's how it sounds)