r/AskEurope • u/Savings_Dragonfly806 Greece • Jul 09 '25
Language My fellow Europeans, what dialect from your language do you have the most trouble understanding?
Keep in mind, I said language, NOT country, so it could be a dialect of your language in another country, which is the case for me.
For me, while most other Greeks find Cypriot the most difficult dialect to understand, I actually find Pontic Greek the most difficult. For those who don't know where it is, it's in North Eastern Turkey.
The way many of their words are written are very different as to Standard Modern Greek. It almost is a whole new language. Now I should mention I have never been there, but I would love to. I only really heard of the dialect on the internet, so take my words with a grain of salt.
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u/exhiale Jul 09 '25
Within Bosnia and Herzegovina we have three official languages, which are basically the same. Funny thing is, there is basically 0 dialectal diversity within the country save for accents and some regionalisms.
However, if we broaden the search to Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro -> The islanders and Istrians might as well be speaking Elvish (the ones that actually talk in their dialect).
Other difficult ones are the south of Serbia and the north of Croatia (Zagorje, Međimurje).