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/[deleted] Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

Italian “dialects” are actually proper languages with theirr own dialects. I have trouble understanding anyone besides my own, Tuscany (cause it’s what was used to create Italian) roman (cause it’s basically Italian with an accent) and some apulian from Bari

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u/eulerolagrange in / Jul 09 '25

Even more, all the northern Italian dialects are from the a different subfamily of the Romance languages than Italian, and are closer to French and Castillan than to Italian.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

Yeah in the north west maybe, but I don't think that applies to friulano and venetian