• Most Serbian words are of native Slavic lexical stock, tracing back to the Proto-Slavic language. There are many loanwords from different languages, reflecting...
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    word-forming roots of the recipient language. Loanwords, in contrast, are not translated. Examples of loanwords in the English language include café (from French...
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    Serbian (српски / srpski, pronounced [sr̩̂pskiː]) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official...
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  • List of Serbo-Croatian words of Turkish origin (category Lists of loanwords)
    Zirojević deems that a lot more Turkish loanwords have been used in Serbia's distant past - around 8,000 - than in the present, which is estimated to be...
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    loanwords are no longer considered loanwords. There is considerable usage of French words as well, especially in military related terms. One Serbian word...
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  • adopting loanwords or replacing them altogether. This particularly relates to other Serbo-Croatian standards of Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian which liberally...
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  • possession and to motion. Some loanwords were used to name new objects or concepts. For instance, Slavic loanwords in the Romanian vocabulary of agriculture...
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    Bosnian language (category Articles containing Serbian-language text)
    Herzegovina, along with Croatian and Serbian. It is also an officially recognized minority language in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo...
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    Romanian language (category Languages of Serbia)
    unele față de altele în spiritul fraternității. The sentence rewritten to exclude French and Italian loanwords. Slavic loanwords are highlighted: Toate...
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    in the 1990s. Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian standards varieties tend to be inclusive, i.e. to accept a wider range of idioms and to use loanwords (German...
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  • Serbian literature (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска књижевност), refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other lands where Serbs reside...
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    while Ancient Greek loanwords are scarce the Latin loanwords are of extreme importance in phonology. The presence of loanwords from more well-studied...
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    the Serbian Despotate in 1459, ending a cultural and political renaissance. Ottomans ruled the territory and influenced Serbian culture, especially in the...
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    pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes". In Russian, the letter ⟨е⟩ can follow unpalatalized consonants, especially ⟨ж⟩, ⟨ш⟩, and ⟨ц⟩. In some loanwords, other consonants...
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    only used in certain dialects. ↑ Bambara also has the digraphs: ⟨kh⟩ (only present in loanwords), ⟨sh⟩ (also written as ⟨ʃ⟩; only present in some dialects)...
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    the authority of the Police Directorate of the Serbian Police. The word žandarmerija is a French loanword ("gendarmerie"), and is pronounced "zhandarmeriya"...
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    Š (category Serbian language)
    Belarusian Latin and Bulgarian Latin also use the letter. In Finnish and Estonian, š occurs only in loanwords. Polish and Hungarian do not use š. Polish uses the...
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    and this value of the letter has been retained in loanwords to all the insular Celtic languages: in Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic, ⟨c⟩ represents only /k/...
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  • orthography was much more stable, resulting in the modern nonphonemic situation. On the contrary the Albanian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin, Romanian...
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  • Pangram (category Articles containing Serbian-language text)
    Pangram writers in these languages are forced to choose between only using those letters found in native words or incorporating exotic loanwords into their...
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  • is relevant for Serbia, where educated speakers otherwise speak close to standard Serbian in professional contexts; this is less so in Croatia, where educated...
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  • and common in the modern vernaculars of Serbo-Croatian: hiljada (хиљада), tiganj (тигањ), patos (патос). Almost every word of the Serbian Orthodox ceremonies...
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    of the letter is фита́ fitá (or, in pre-1918 spelling, ѳита́). Fita was mainly used to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek. Russians...
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  • the loanwords come from Germanic languages, with other contributors being Iranian, Celtic, and Turkic. Slavic loanwords sparked numerous debates in the...
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    Vozhd (category First Serbian Uprising)
    the First Serbian uprising in the 19th century. As such Karađorđe was titled Grand Vožd of Serbia. Later, in Russian, it was often used in reference to...
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  • Studio 5. This encoding is missing the letters Š and Ž which are used in loanwords in Finnish and can be replaced by the digraphs SH and ZH. The following...
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    Japanese language (category Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2013)
    appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo) in the Early Modern Japanese...
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    closer to the Macedonian language, than to Serbian. The Torlakian dialect is a transitional dialect of Serbian and Bulgarian whilst also sharing features...
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    Sorbs (redirect from Lusatian Serbs)
    CITEREFVlasto1970 (help) Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff (2013). The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. Rodopi. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-94-012-0984-7. Živković, Tibor...
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    Letters in bold are used only in Russian loanwords. Naukan Yupik Ainu (in Russia) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Aisor) Ket (since 1980s) Nivkh Tlingit (in Russian...
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