Language Facts in Former SFRY
Serbia and Montenegro appeared the official title of the state as of February 4, 2003, because of the process of restructuring the country prior known as The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Serbia and Montenegro is the biggest descendant of the dissolved Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and made up of two states: Serbia and Montenegro.
Inside Serbia, there are two autonomous regions, Vojvodina and Kosovo. Kosovo was under the supervision of the UN since 1999. Linguistic policy and manipulations of time, title standards and names of various tongues took an important role in the numerous ethnical conflicts that took place from 1990 to 1999 and it is yet a very sensitive issue in the whole territory of the Balkans. Quality Italian translation
The official language of the Republic of Serbia is Serbian (with over 6 000 000 speakers in the area of Serbia aside from Kosovo, or 88% of the inhabitants); an equal legal status is afforded to both the Cyrillic and the Roman spelling, but the former is preferred by Serbian state administration. Less spread languages, which are also in official disposal in the regions where they are spoken, are Hungarian (in line with the 2002 census info of the Statistical Institute 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 natives), Bulgarian (16 500 speakers), and Macedonian (14 500 speakers). Local languages are used at all levels of education: in early schools, gymnasiums, and at technical schools and universities. The first linguistic effect of the political and ethnic processes of the last decade of XX century is that the language that used to be officially called Serbo-Croat has received several new nationally and politically based titles. As a result, the names Serbo-Croat, Bosnianare governmentally determined and refer to the same language with acceptable few variations. The language has a couple general dialects, Ekavian and Ijekavian.
But, in general, Ekavian is spread widely in Serbia (and parts of Croatia), and Ijekavian is spoken to the large extent in Montenegro (and also in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and parts of Croatia), these dialects do not coincide with the nationally motivated titles.
The language situation in Kosovo is less clear now, because about 300 000 refugees from this region, predominantly Serbs, are still in the process of returning to their homes. This situation makes the figures of speakers reported unreliable. These days, by 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 language of the Republic of Montenegro is Serbian, but there are modern tendencies to introduce the name Montenegrin, either equal to or as a replacement to the name Serbian. Similar as with Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, this term refers to the same language that was called Serbo-Croat, and is rather a matter of governmental resolutions and convictions.
The Cyrillic and the Roman alphabet are officially in use. The 2003 census data from the Statistical Institute of the Republic of Montenegro demonstrate that around 401 500, or 60% of the inhabitants of Montenegro, recognize themselves as speakers of Serbian, about 145 000 (22%) speak Montenegrin, nearly 49 500 (7%) speak Albanian, 29 000 (4%) are speakers of Bosnian, and about 3000 speak other languages.