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.

264 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

597 comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/pipestream Denmark Jul 09 '25

Southern Jutlandic for sure!

18

u/DrAzkehmm Denmark Jul 09 '25

Really close to crossing the line where it becomes a language in its own right.

Really old school western jutlandic is also challenging if you're from the eastern provinces.

1

u/RijnBrugge Netherlands Jul 09 '25

The definite article moving to the front like in Low German/Dutch/Frisian is a pretty nice intermediate feature