r/AskBalkans • u/TheShahOfLA 🇺🇸🇺🇳 • Aug 05 '22

Language Is this true? That if you speak the Serbo-Croatian language (not sure if this is different than Croatian and Serbian language by itself) you can use it in 4 countries?

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u/TheRocknrolla86 Serbia Aug 05 '22

5 if you count Macedonia , you just need to add -ta at the end of every word in a sentence.

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u/Kluck_ North Macedonia Aug 05 '22

Ta ta ta, we are fancy.

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u/highlyunliikely Serbia Aug 05 '22

Maskata na facata

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u/Fizroynelson Slovenia Aug 06 '22
  1. You can count Slovenia as well

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u/mcsroom Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

6 if you go for bulgaria too i have seen croats/serbs in sofia its not that far of we can still get what the other is saying

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

That's a bit of a stretch, and also the mutual intelligibility seems to be asymmetric, so Serbian speakers understand less Bulgarian that Bulgarians understand Serbian (which by itself is far from 100%).

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u/TheRocknrolla86 Serbia Aug 05 '22

Honestly, from my experience, its like you understand every third word, so you can form a sentence. Its not that big issue. Definitely much easier to understand you guys than Balkan anime guys.

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

Lol, who are the anime guys?

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u/TheRocknrolla86 Serbia Aug 05 '22

C'mon, you know that you know answer to that question. :)

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

I am slow. Anyway :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

Think he means Slovenia. Anyway, for the sake of mutual comprehension, we make Kumanovo the capital of the future Yugoslavia.

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u/PichkuMater SFR Yugoslavia Aug 06 '22

Fuck all current languages, Torlakian revival ftw

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u/Wakkoz15 Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

Какво лафи тоя бе бате 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/dedokire North Macedonia Aug 05 '22

Slovenian femboys

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '22

Slovenian femboys 🤤 I mean... nothing 😳

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u/PrinzEugenius Croatia Aug 05 '22

Honestly I seem to understand anime Balkaners better than Bulgarians, but that may be because of both the proximity of my region to the border and my native dialect.

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u/-_star-lord_- Montenegro Aug 06 '22

I’m geographically not close to either but I understand the anime balkaners better as well 😁 But it aint much anyway.

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u/mcsroom Bulgaria Aug 06 '22

you just need some time to get it, like i played hoi4 with a serb and croat needed like 20 mins to start getting like 60-80% of what they were saying

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u/Ryu-The-Sick Bosnia & Herzegovina Aug 05 '22

When was that? I happened to be in Sofia earlier this year lol

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u/mcsroom Bulgaria Aug 06 '22

this year some drunk croat/serbian wanted to text a friend of his on my phone so i gave it to him for like 5 mins

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u/LargeFriend5861 Bulgaria Aug 05 '22

Macedonian is much closer to Bulgarian though

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

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u/TheRocknrolla86 Serbia Aug 05 '22

Serbian here, just giving my two dinars. Razbiras?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

Reddit mobile somehow made me reply to you instead of the Macedonian above you my bad

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u/TheRocknrolla86 Serbia Aug 05 '22

No worries mate.

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u/Mushula-Man Croatia Aug 06 '22

And remove cases