The Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) separates Serbia and Kosovo, established after Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008. It remains a point of contention, with Serbia not fully recognizing Kosovo’s sovereignty.
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Which language is the world's most widely spoken language that is NOT written using the Latin, Cyrillic, or Arabic scripts?
Mandarin uses Hanzi (logographic characters). While Hindi is also a major language using Devanagari, Mandarin's native speaker population is significantly larger.
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Which language uses the **Gurmukhi script** and is spoken by millions of people in both India and Pakistan?
Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script in India (Sikh religion) and the Shahmukhi script (a Perso-Arabic variant) in Pakistan, making it a major language spanning both countries.
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Which European language is known for its vocabulary being heavily influenced by Arabic, due to historical occupation?
Due to the Moorish rule of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) for centuries, Spanish has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, often recognizable by the prefix 'al-' (e.g., alcohol, algebra, almohada [pillow]).
Persian, or Farsi, is the official language of Iran. Unlike the neighboring Arabic, Persian is an Indo-European language, written in a Perso-Arabic script.
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Which language uses the **Jawi script**, a modified Arabic script, and is official in Brunei and Malaysia?
Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is officially written in both the Latin alphabet (Rumi) and Jawi, a Perso-Arabic script, particularly in Brunei and as an alternative script in Malaysia.
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Which North African country lists Classical Arabic and Amazigh (Berber) as its two official languages?
Morocco's constitution recognizes both Classical Arabic and the indigenous Amazigh language as official. French is also widely used in business and administration but is not officially recognized at the same level.
