Montenegro Languages

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Description[edit | edit source]

The official language in Montenegro is

  • Montenegrin - declared by 37% of population as their native language.

Other legally recognized minority languages are:

The Montenegrin language is written in Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, but there is a growing political movement to use only the Latin alphabet. [1] [2]

Word List(s)[edit | edit source]

Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Alphabet

Pronunciation

Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

Dictionaries

  • Awde, Nicholas and Duška Radosavljević. Serbian dictionary & phrasebook : Serbian-English, English-Serbian. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Kroll, Susan and Dževad Zahirović. Bosnian-English, English-Bosnian dictionary and phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2006. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Newmark, Leonard. Albanian-English dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries

Language Aids

  • Subotić, Dragutin and Nevill Forbes. Serbian grammar. n.p.: Style Press, 2010. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Barlow, Peter J. Albanian grammar : Albanian verbs explained. Aldington: Bay Foreign Language Books, 2002. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Grubišić, Vinko. Croatian grammar. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučlišna naklada, 1995. Available at: WorldCat.

Additional Resources[edit | edit source]

  • Alexander, Ronelle. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a grammar. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Šipka, Danko and R. David Paul Zorc. A comparative reference grammar of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian. Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press, 2007. Available at: WorldCat.
  • Vrabec, Željko. Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian an essential grammar. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. Available at: WorldCat.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Montenegro," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro#:~:text=Languages, accessed 7 Apr 2022.
  2. Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Montenegro," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Montenegro, accessed 7 Apr 2022.