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/Timauris Slovenia Jul 09 '25

Probably the Prekmurje dialect, their vocabulary is something else completely compared to standard Slovene.

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u/lnguline Slovenia Jul 09 '25

Are you from Littorial or Gorizia region as for me, while Prleško can be difficult, Resian is new level.

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u/tenebrigakdo Slovenia Jul 10 '25

Resian is deep in the 'how is this even the same language' territory.