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Basic terms, used in Serbian language, were introduced via classical languages (Greek and Latin) into other languages, including English. The process of interlingual transmission began during the early medieval period, and continued up to the modern times, being finalized in major international languages at the beginning of the 20th century.
In formal Croatian, verb trebati (need or should) is transitive, as in English. [32] 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 ...
The Three-finger salute, also called the "Serb salute", is a popular expression for ethnic Serbs and Serbia, originally expressing Serbian Orthodoxy and today simply being a symbol for ethnic Serbs and the Serbian nation, made by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers of one or both hands.
"For King and Fatherland" (За краља и отачаствo / Za kralja i otačastvo), motto of the Royal Serbian Army, found on regimental infantry flags. [6] "For the Faith, King and Fatherland" (За веру, краља и отачаство / Za veru, kralja i otačastvo), motto of the Royal Serbian Army, found on regimental cavalry flags.
The “All-Serb Assembly” with a slogan “One People, One Gathering” included thousands of Bosnian Serbs and those who traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, from neighboring countries ...
German linguist Vasmer (1944) recorded 1,000 Greek words in Serbian, most of which were addressed in the Old Serbian form. [11] Today, it is estimated that 900–1,200 Grecisms (grecizmi) exist in Serbian, more than 400 being in the church-religious section. [1] In the economical section, apart from Greek, many words in Old Serbian were Romance ...
Serbo-Croatian vernacular has over time borrowed and adopted a lot of words of Turkish origin. The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans began a linguistical contact between Ottoman Turkish and South Slavic languages, a period of influence since at least the late 14th up until the 20th century, when large terriotories of Shtokavian-speaking areas became conquered and made into provinces of the ...
Early historical mentions of other Serb-sounding names that some researchers are trying to connect with the Serb people. In the same book where he mentioned people named Serboi, Claudius Ptolemy also mentioned city named Serbinum in Pannonia. [6] Ancient geographer Strabo mentioned that river Xanthos in Lycia was formerly named Sirbis. [7]