Languages of Montenegro

Languages of Montenegro
Official	Montenegrin
Minority	Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Signed	Yugoslav Sign Language

Montenegro has one official language, specified in the Constitution of 2007 as Montenegrin. In 2011, the majority of the population declared "Serbian" to be their native language, while 37% declared it to be "Montenegrin". Linguistically, they are the same language (a dialect of Serbo-Croatian), but an incipient Montenegrin standard is in the process of being formulated.

Recognized minority languages are Albanian, Bosnian, and Croatian. Albanian is an official language of the municipality of Ulcinj. Additionally, there are a few hundreds Italians in Montenegro, concentrated in the Bay of Kotor (Cattaro).

The Montenegrin language is written in Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, but there it is a growing political movement to use only the Latin alphabet.

Minority languages

Albanian

See also

• Controversy over ethnic and linguistic identity in Montenegro

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2024 ed.). CIA. (Archived 2006 edition.)