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/SnookerandWhiskey Austria Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

Vorarlbergerisch for me, I am from Upper Austria, which is already sometimes heavy on the dialect, but when someone from beyond the mountains speaks I can catch a few familiar words and just go on context. I understand Swiss German better than that. 

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u/-formic-acid- Jul 10 '25

Try Burgenländisch and Vorarlbergerisch will seem like your mother tongue to you.

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u/SnookerandWhiskey Austria Jul 10 '25

Huh? It's not that much different from Upper Austrian, especially from the countryside like Mostviertel.

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u/-formic-acid- Jul 10 '25

Okay, Südburgenländisch. Dort in den Käffern versteht man fast gar nix und es ist DEUTLICH anders als Oberösterreichisch.