Montenegrin

normative variety of Serbo-Croatian in Montenegro
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Summary

Montenegrin is a standard variety[1]. Montenegrin draws 8,795 Wikipedia views per month (standard variety category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Montenegro[3]
  • Instance of: pluricentric language variant[4], language[5]
  • Named after: Montenegro[6]
  • Subclass of: Eastern Herzegovinian[7], Serbo-Croatian[8]
  • Writing system: Montenegrin Cyrillic alphabet[9], Montenegrin Latin alphabet[10]
  • Commons category: Montenegrin language[11]
  • Wikimedia language code: cnr[12]
  • Said to be the same as: Serbo-Croatian[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Montenegrin language[14]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 232,600[15]
  • Native label: crnogorski jezik[16], црногорски језик[17]
  • Short name: черногориаг[18], montenegrino[19], crnogorski[20], црногорски[21]
  • Indigenous to: Montenegrins[22], Mali Iđoš Municipality[23]
  • Studied by: Montenegrin studies[24]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CNR[25], http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/0E0[26]
  • Has grammatical case: nominative case[27], dative case[28], genitive case[29], accusative case[30], vocative case[31], locative case[32], instrumental case[33]
  • Ethnologue language status: 1 National[34]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[35], free-order language[36], nominative–accusative language[37], stress-timed language[38], fusional language[39], adjective-noun[40], synthetic language[41], pro-drop language[42], pitch accent[43]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Montenegrin-language films[44]
  • Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cnr[45]

Why It Matters

Montenegrin has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Montenegrin is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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