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Science and Engineering Research Board is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009 (SERB ACT, 2008). [1] The Board was chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology. [2]
[18] [19] The emperor contended that their name in the tongue of the Romans means a "servant"; because of which the serbula signifies 'menial shoes', while tzerboulianoi is for those who wear poor man's footwear; and additionally, that the region or town of Servia (Serblia) near Thessaloniki received its name from the Serbs who once lived there.
Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language that, like most other Slavic languages, has an extensive system of inflection.This article describes exclusively the grammar of the Shtokavian dialect, which is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum [1] and the basis for the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian standard variants of Serbo-Croatian. [2] "
In Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian, it is impersonal, like the French il faut, or the English construct is necessary (to); the grammatical subject is either omitted (it), or presents the object of needing; the person that needs something is an indirect grammatical object, in the dative case. [33]
The international name Slivovitz is derived from Serbian. [202] Plum and its products are of great importance to Serbs and part of numerous customs. [203] A Serbian meal usually starts or ends with plum products and Šljivovica is served as an aperitif. [203] A saying goes that the best place to build a house is where a plum tree grows best. [203]
However, according to English linguist Monier Monier-Williams, name of Srbinda is formed by Sanskrit words "Sr" (to flow) and "Bind" (to break), [4] therefore unrelated to the Serbian ethnonym, which probably have different etymology. [5] [6] (check Name of the Serbs and Serbia)
Serbian is a rare example of synchronic digraphia, a situation where all literate members of a society have two interchangeable writing systems available to them. The official language is Serbian, native to 88% of the population. [282] Serbian is the only European language with active digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as "Indie". The name "India" then came back to English usage from the 17th century onward, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese. [citation needed]