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Although the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets enjoy equal status under the Constitution of Montenegro, the government and proponents of the Montenegrin language prefer to use the Latin script; [2] it is also much more widely used in all aspects of the day-to-day written communication in the country, in education, advertising and media.
A declaration of Montenegrin as their native language is not confined to ethnic Montenegrins. According to the 2011 census, a proportion of other ethnic groups in Montenegro have also claimed Montenegrin to be their native language. Most openly, Matica Muslimanska called on Muslims living in Montenegro to name their native language as ...
[2] [3] Montenegrin can be written in both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, but there is a growing political movement to use only the Latin alphabet. [4] Legally recognized minority languages are Albanian, Bosnian, and Croatian. As of 2017, Albanian is an official language of the municipalities of Podgorica, Ulcinj, Bar, Pljevlja, Rozaje and ...
Though all of the language variants could theoretically use either, the scripts differ: Bosnian and Montenegrin officially use both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, but the Latin one is more in widespread use. Croatian exclusively uses the Latin alphabet. Serbian uses both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Serbian Cyrillic is in official use in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [2] Although Bosnia "officially accept[s] both alphabets", [2] the Latin script is almost always used in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [2] whereas Cyrillic is in everyday use in Republika Srpska.
First instance of usage of the accented Cyrillic letter з́ was in 1926. by Danilo Vušović. [1] It came into official use in mid-2009, with the adoption of the Law on the Official Language in Montenegro. The letter originates from rural areas in Montenegro. [citation needed]
Sje (С́ с́; italics: С́ с́) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, formed from the Cyrillic Es (С с С с) with the addition of an acute accent (not to be confused with the Latin letter Ć). It is used in the Montenegrin alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant /ɕ/. It corresponds to the Latin Ś. [1]
The division is partly based on religion – Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Macedonia (which use Cyrillic) are Orthodox countries, whereas Croatia and Slovenia (which use Latin) are Catholic. [22] The Bosnian language, used by the Muslim Bosniaks, also uses Latin, but in the past used Bosnian Cyrillic.