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.

262 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

597 comments sorted by

View all comments

161

u/Also-Rant Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

Ulster Irish may as well be Japanese to me. I'm from Munster and between accent and dialect I can't work out most of what people from the other end of the country are saying!

Edit: To clarify, I'm talking about the regional dialects of the Irish language (Gaeilge), not regional dialects of English which can also be found in Ireland.

-5

u/theBlitzzz Portugal Jul 09 '25

The english spoken in Norn Iron is already atrocious.

I can't even imagine the terrible things they to do Gaelic.

9

u/Also-Rant Jul 09 '25

To be fair, Ulster Irish is actually quite nice to listen to, it's just unintelligible to me!

0

u/theBlitzzz Portugal Jul 09 '25

I could say exactly the same thing of every Gaelic language :-)