

To reach it required magic or travelling through dense, deep, a scorching and a high. Smurf village When they first appeared in 1958, the Smurfs lived in a part of the world called ' Le Pays Maudit' (French for 'the Cursed Land').

This story is considered a on the still ongoing (language war) between French- and Dutch-speaking communities in Belgium. In Schtroumpf vert et vert Schtroumpf (see ), published in Belgium in 1972, it was revealed that the smurf village was divided between North and South, and that the Smurfs on either side had different ideas as to how the term 'smurf' should be used: for instance, the Northern Smurfs called a certain object a 'bottle smurfer', while the Southern Smurfs called it a 'smurf opener'. Context offers a reliable understanding of this speech pattern, but common vocabulary includes remarking that something is 'just smurfy' or in some cases, 'smurftastic'. In the animated series, only some words (or a portion of the word) are replaced with the word 'smurf'. So 'I'm smurfing to the smurf' is not the same as 'I'm smurfing to the smurf'.

Humans have found that replacing ordinary words with the term 'smurf' at random is not enough: in one adventure, Peewit explains to some other humans that the statement 'I'm smurfing to the smurf' means 'I'm going to the wood', but a Smurf corrects him by saying that the proper statement would be 'I'm smurfing to the smurf' whereas what Peewit said was 'I'm warbling to the dawn'. The Smurfs frequently replace both and in everyday speech with the word 'smurf': 'We're going smurfing on the River Smurf today.' When used as a verb, the word 'Smurf' typically means 'to make', 'to be', 'to like', or 'to do'. Language A characteristic of the Smurf language is the frequent use of the undefinable word 'smurf' and its derivatives in a variety of meanings. All of the original Smurfs were male later female additions are Smurfette and Sassette-Smurfette being Gargamel's creation, while Sassette was created by the Smurflings.
