Serbia and Montenegro arose the official name of the nation as of February 4, 2003, as a result of the process of restructuring the country previously known as The SFRY. Serbia and Montenegro is the biggest part of the former SFRY and made up of two states: Serbia and Montenegro.
Within Serbia, there are two quasi-independent regions, Vojvodina and Kosovo. Kosovo has been under the supervision of the UN since 1999. Linguistic politics and turns of the history, official standards and names of various tongues took an important part in the numerous ethnical conflicts that took place from 1990 till 1999 and it is yet a very delicate problem in the total area of the peninsula. Quality Translate from Italian to English
The official tongue of the Republic of Serbia is Serbian (with over 6 000 000 speakers in the area of Serbia without Kosovo, or 88% of the inhabitants); the same legal status is given to both the Cyrillic and the Roman alphabet, although the latest is favored for Serbian authorities. Minority languages, which are also in governmental disposal in the parts where they are spoken, are Hungarian (in line with the 2002 census info of the StatsOffice of the Republic of Serbia, approximated at 286 500 speakers), Bosnian (134 500 speakers), Romanian (82 000 speakers), Albanian (63 500 citizens), Slovakian (57 500 speakers), Valachian (55 000 speakers), Romanian (34 500 speakers), Croatian (27 500 speakers), Bulgarian (16 500 speakers), and Macedonian (14 500 speakers). Minority tongues are used at all stages of upbringing: in primary schools, high schools, and at technical schools and universities. The first linguistic consequence of the political and ethnic vulnerabilities of the last decade of XX century is that the language that previously was officially called Serbo-Croat has received a number of new ethnically and politically grounded names. As a result, the titles Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnianare governmentally determined and refer to the same language with possible few variations. The language has two general dialects, Ekavian and Ijekavian.
But, in general, Ekavian is spoken widely in Serbia (and parts of Croatia), and Ijekavian is spoken more in Montenegro (and also in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and parts of Croatia), these dialects do not coincide with the nationally motivated names.
The language map in Kosovo is less clear at present, because about 300 000 refugees from this region, mostly Serbs, are still on the stage of returning to their homes. This situation makes the figures of natives reported unpredictable. Today, according to the authority of Kosovo, about 1 670 000, or 88% of the inhabitants of Kosovo, speak Albanian, and about 133 000, or 7%, are speakers of Serbian. The remains of the people (5%) speaks mostly Romanian, Bosnian, Greek. HQ-translate: Greek translators
The title tongue of the Republic of Montenegro is Serbian, but there are recent developments to introduce the name Montenegrin, either equal to or instead of the term Serbian. Similar as with Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, this term refers to the one language that was called Serbo-Croat, and is rather a subject of governmental resolutions and convictions.
The Cyrillic and the Roman alphabet are officially in use. The 2003 census data from the StatOffice of the Republic of Montenegro show that about 401 500, or 60% of the citizens of Montenegro, declare themselves as natives of Serbian, about 145 000 (22%) speak Montenegrin, nearly 49 500 (7%) speak Albanian, 29 000 (4%) are speakers of Bosnian, and approx. 3000 speak either Croatian or Romany.