Montenegrin language

Montenegrin
Montenegrin
crnogorski / црногорски
Pronunciation	[tsr̩nǒɡorskiː]
Native to	Montenegro
Ethnicity	Montenegrins
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbo-Croatian Montenegrin; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic (Montenegrin alphabet); Latin (Montenegrin alphabet); Yugoslav Braille
Official status
Official language in	Montenegro
Recognised minority; language in	Bosnia and Herzegovina; Mali Iđoš municipality (Vojvodina, Serbia)
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Montenegrin Language
Language codes
ISO 639-2	cnr
ISO 639-3	cnr
Glottolog	mont1282
Linguasphere	part of 53-AAA-g
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Montenegrin (/ˌmɒntɪˈniːɡrɪn/ MON-tə-NEE-grən; crnogorski / црногорски) is a normative variety of the Serbo-Croatian language.^[5] It is the official language of Montenegro.

AlphabetEdit

The Montenegrin alphabet has three more letters than the Serbian one; Ś, З and Ź. Besides those letters, the Serbian and Montenegrin alphabets are the same.

Sample textEdit

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Montenegrin, written in the Latin alphabet:^[6]

Sva ljudska bića rađaju se slobodna i jednaka u dostojanstvu i pravima. Ona su obdarena razumom i savješću i jedni prema drugima treba da postupaju u duhu bratstva.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in English:^[7]

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

ReferencesEdit

↑ Council of Europe: [1] (in English)
↑ "Serbian Montenegrins Demand Official Language Rights". 7 August 2017.
↑ "ISO 639-2 Language Code List - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov.
↑ "cnr - ISO 639-3". www-01.sil.org.
↑ Šipka, Danko (2019). Lexical layers of identity: words, meaning, and culture in the Slavic languages. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 201. doi:10.1017/9781108685795. ISBN 978-953-313-086-6. LCCN 2018048005. OCLC 1061308790. S2CID 150383965. the Montenegrin language (one of the four ethnic variants of Serbo-Croatian)
↑ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". ohchr.org.
↑ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". un.org.

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[1] Council of Europe: [1] (in English)

[2] "Serbian Montenegrins Demand Official Language Rights". 7 August 2017.

[iso6392-3] "ISO 639-2 Language Code List - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov.

[iso6393-4] "cnr - ISO 639-3". www-01.sil.org.

[5] Šipka, Danko (2019). Lexical layers of identity: words, meaning, and culture in the Slavic languages. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 201. doi:10.1017/9781108685795. ISBN 978-953-313-086-6. LCCN 2018048005. OCLC 1061308790. S2CID 150383965. the Montenegrin language (one of the four ethnic variants of Serbo-Croatian)

[6] "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". ohchr.org.

[7] "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". un.org.

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Montenegrin
crnogorski / црногорски
Pronunciation	[tsr̩nǒɡorskiː]
Native to	Montenegro
Ethnicity	Montenegrins
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbo-Croatian Montenegrin
Writing system	Cyrillic (Montenegrin alphabet) Latin (Montenegrin alphabet) Yugoslav Braille
Official status
Official language in	Montenegro
Recognised minority language in	Bosnia and Herzegovina^[1] Mali Iđoš municipality (Vojvodina, Serbia)^[2]
Regulated by	Board for Standardization of the Montenegrin Language
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`cnr` ^[3]
ISO 639-3	`cnr` ^[4]
Glottolog	`mont1282`
Linguasphere	`part of 53-AAA-g`
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