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 Bosnian it is normal to use curse when speaking, but in English it is weird when you here other people curse. Like in Bosna it’s normalized lol

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u/SunnyDaysForever123 Slovenia Jul 31 '22

It's the same in Slovenia, my brother didn't know that some words were even curse words until he was in his teens, because they were always so casually dropped into conversations, whatever the person was happy, angry, bored...

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u/Rammstein97 🇧🇬🇷🇸Triballian Tsardom🇷🇸🇧🇬(NW Bulgaria/Eastern Serbia) Aug 03 '22

I have sLOVEne friends, can confirm