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Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.
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]
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.
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]
India and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between India and SFR Yugoslavia in 1948. History In 1926, Rabindranath Tagore gave two lectures at the University of Belgrade. Both countries were founding members of the Non Aligned Movement with Serbia being part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time. Countries had developed close friendly relations during the ...
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. [283] Serbian is the only European language with active digraphia, using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...