Unique words in Slavic languages

[Methmatician]

We have loads of unique words, maybe most out of all, we even have one village up in NW Croatia that speaks a slavic language which coupled with their accent noone understands but them

I could make probably full topic about unique words, but here is one example

barakokul

Of course Croatian does But Serbian and Bosnian overlaps with other languages.

[Duke]

Of course Croatian does But Serbian and Bosnian overlaps with other languages.

what you guys have in common is lots of turkish loanwords.


We on the other hand have insane amount of dialects, and dialects among dialects

BTW-barakokula is apricot

PS-Dali razumiš, ili pričaš samo engleski?

[Methmatician]

what you guys have in common is lots of turkish loanwords.


We on the other hand have insane amount of dialects, and dialects among dialects

BTW-barakokula is apricot

PS-Dali razumiš, ili pričaš samo engleski?

Znam pomalo, a ne pričam puno. Btw, it's not just the Turkish loanwords, it's even Slavic words that overlap, and there's Latin influence. If there are unique words, most likely they're archaic or very uncommon and not used much in everyday conversation.

[Duke]

Znam pomalo, a ne pričam puno. Btw, it's not just the Turkish loanwords, it's even Slavic words that overlap, and there's Latin influence. If there are unique words, most likely they're archaic or very uncommon and not used much in everyday conversation.

well, we have lots of words that overlap, no doubt about that

BTW, this song(with lyrics) has about 90% of completely unique Croatian words, and 90% of them are of Slavic root

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Even if you understand a bit, i doubt you would understand it if you were perfect speaker

[Methmatician]

BTW, this song(with lyrics) has about 90% of completely unique Croatian words, and 90% of them are of Slavic root

Is this Štokavian? And do you speak this dialect (the one in the song)?

One thing I noticed about Croatians is that they don't like to introduce non-Slavic words into their language, I like that, if only other Slavic languages did the same.

[Duke]

Is this Štokavian? And do you speak this dialect (the one in the song)?

One thing I noticed about Croatians is that they don't like to introduce non-Slavic words into their language, I like that, if only other Slavic languages did the same.

No its Čakavian, specifically, and uniquely from island Vis.
That is, even tho its Čakavian, only people from Vis speak like that.

I understand it, but i dont have any heritage from Vis

[Vojnik]

Amidža: Uncle (Father's brother)
Bašća/Bašta: Garden
Avlija: Yard

Uncle = Striko/Стрико, Chicho/Чичо for Fathers brother. Vujche/Вујче for mothers brother. Tetin/Тетин for mothers/fathers sisters husband. So there is three ways of saying uncle in Macedonian.

Garden = Bavcha/Бавча and Bashta/Башта.

Yard = Dvor/Двор.

[Methmatician]

No its Čakavian, specifically, and uniquely from island od Vis.
That is, even tho its Čakavian, only people from Vis speak like that.

I understand it, but i dont have any heritage from Vis

Do you speak Čakavian?

[Onur]

In that case there are none, unless you group Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian into Serbo-Croatian.

Actually i am suspicious about Amidža. If this word is also used in other slavic languages, then it can be an early loan because adopting a Turkish word for a basic family connotation doesn't sound logic but ofc it might be a result of intermarrying between Turks and Bosnians.

Bašća and Avlija are definitely Ottoman era loans because Avlija was a part of Ottoman style accommodation and adopting the word Basca sounds normal too because Turks brought lots of tree, herb and flowers to cultivate in Balkans during Ottoman era. The gardening was quite advanced and common in Ottoman era.

Uncle = Striko/Стрико, Chicho/Чичо for Fathers brother.

I think "Chico" means "boy, baby boy" in Spanish, Italian, or something like that.

[Duke]

Do you speak Čakavian?

Čakavian is basically Ča instead of Što for the word "what" , but there are many dialects that use Ča, but can completely differ from each other.

I can speak Hvarski, or how we say Hvorski