Editing Serbs (section)

==Ethnology==
{{See also|Names of the Serbs and Serbia}}
The identity of Serbs is rooted in [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] and traditions. In the 19th century, the [[Serbian national identity]] was manifested,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Буквић |first=Димитрије |title=Од златне виљушке до долине јоргована |url=https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/439724/Od-zlatne-viljuske-do-doline-jorgovana |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Politika Online |archive-date=14 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714203755/https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/439724/Od-zlatne-viljuske-do-doline-jorgovana |url-status=live }}</ref> with awareness of history and tradition, medieval heritage, cultural unity, despite living under different empires.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} Three elements, together with the legacy of the [[Nemanjić dynasty]], were crucial in forging identity and preservation during foreign domination: the [[Serbian Orthodox Church]], the [[Serbian language]], and the [[Kosovo Myth]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Ana S. Trbovich|title=A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ojur7dVoxIcC&pg=PA69|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-533343-5|pages=69–|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102074805/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ojur7dVoxIcC&pg=PA69|archive-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> When the [[Principality of Serbia]] gained independence from the Ottoman Empire, Orthodoxy became crucial in defining [[National identity of Serbia|the national identity]], instead of language which was shared by other [[South Slavs]] ([[Croats]] and [[Bosniaks]]).<ref name="Catherwood2002">{{cite book|author=Christopher Catherwood|title=Why the Nations Rage: Killing in the Name of God|url=https://archive.org/details/whynationsrageki0000cath|url-access=registration|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-0090-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whynationsrageki0000cath/page/135 135]–}}</ref> The tradition of ''[[slava (tradition)|slava]]'', the family saint feast day, is an important ethnic marker of Serb identity,<ref name="EB70"/> and is usually regarded their most significant and most solemn [[feast day]].<ref name="Celia Jaes Falicov 1991 219">{{cite book | author = Celia Jaes Falicov | title = Family Transitions: Continuity and Change Over the Life Cycle | publisher = Guilford Press | year = 1991 | location = [[New York City]] | page = 219 | isbn = 978-0-89862-484-7}}</ref>

The origin of the [[ethnonym]] is unclear. The most prominent theory considers it of [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]] origin. [[Hanna Popowska-Taborska]] argued native [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] provenance of the ethnonym,<ref name="Popowska">{{cite journal |last=Popowska-Taborska |first=Hanna |date=1993 |title=Ślady etnonimów słowiańskich z elementem obcym w nazewnictwie polskim |url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.hdl_11089_16320 |language=pl |journal=Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica |volume=27 |pages=225–230 |doi=10.18778/0208-6077.27.29 |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211628/http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.hdl_11089_16320 |url-status=live |hdl=11089/16320 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> claiming that the theory advances a conclusion that the ethnonym has a meaning of a family kinship or alliance, which was also argued by a number of other scholars.<ref name="Popowska90">{{cite book |last=Popowska-Taborska |first=Hanna |date=1999 |chapter=Językowe wykładniki opozycji swoi – obcy w procesie tworzenia etnicznej tożsamości |chapter-url=http://www.isybislaw.ispan.waw.pl/ShowDocument.do?documentId=244061 |language=pl |title=Językowy obraz świata |editor=Jerzy Bartmiński |editor-link=Jerzy Bartmiński |publisher=Wydaw. Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej |location=Lublin |pages=57–63 |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714203755/http://www.isybislaw.ispan.waw.pl/ShowDocument.do?documentId=244061 |url-status=live }}</ref>