The Declaration of the The introduction of the Montenegrin language has been supported by other important academic institutions such as the Opponents acknowledge that these sounds can be heard by many Montenegrin speakers, however, they do not form a language system and thus are In 2004, the government of Montenegro changed the school curriculum so that the name of the mandatory classes teaching the language was changed from "Serbian language" to "Mother tongue (Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatian, Bosnian)". Most openly, Matica Muslimanska called on The proponents of the separate Montenegrin language prefer using the Most mainstream politicians and other proponents of the Montenegrin language state that the issue is chiefly one of self-determination and the people's right to call the language what they want, rather than an attempt to artificially create a new language when there is none. Crnogorski PEN Centar, 1997 Montenegrin is the normative variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Montenegrins and is the official language of Montenegro.
Montenegro's language has historically and traditionally been called either Montenegrin, "Our language", or Serbian.
Montenegro's language has historically and traditionally been called either Montenegrin,The first Montenegrin standard was officially proposed in July 2009. Complete paperwork was forwarded to Washington in September 2015. In addition to the letters prescribed by the Serbo-Croatian standard, the proposal introduced two additional letters, ⟨ś⟩ and ⟨ź⟩, to replace the On 21 June 2010, the Council for General Education adopted the first First written request for the assignment of international code was submitted to the technical committee ISO 639 in July 2008. The idea of a standardized Montenegrin standard This change was made, according to the government, in order to better reflect the diversity of languages spoken among citizens in the republic and to protect human rights of non-Serb citizens in Montenegro who declare themselves as speakers of other languages.This decision resulted in a number of teachers declaring a The new letters had been used for official documents since 2009 but in February 2017, the Pravopis crnogorskog jezika, Vojislav Nikčević. According to the 2011 census, a proportion of other ethnic groups in Montenegro have also claimed Montenegrin to be their native language. After the long procedure, the request was finally approved on Friday, December 8, 2017 and The language remains an ongoing issue in Montenegro.In the census of 1991, the vast majority of Montenegrin citizens, 510,320 or 82.97%, declared themselves speakers of the then-official language: According to a poll of 1,001 Montenegrin citizens conducted by According to an early 2017 poll, 42.6% of Montenegro's citizens have opted for Serbian as the name of their native language, while 37.9% for Montenegrin.A declaration of Montenegrin as their native language is not confined to ethnic Montenegrins. Montenegrin is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, more specifically on Eastern Herzegovinian, which is also the basis of Standard Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian.