Attempts to equate the Serbian and Bosnian languages with the Montenegrin language in the Constitution are the malicious goals of a large-state policy that wants to reduce the state language to the language of the Montenegrins as a national group in Montenegro, which would irreversibly lose the civil character of Montenegro, which is not and cannot be a nation state. in which the language of each of these nations has the status of an official language.
This is what the deputy and vice-president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) told "Vijesti" Aleksandra Vuković Kuč, commenting on the message of the spokesperson of the Bosniak Party (BS) Adel Omeragić that the party will advocate for the Bosnian language to be official.
He stated this as a guest in a podcast, saying that the protection of the Bosnian language is one of the priorities of BS. Previously, in mid-October, after the published results of the population census, part of the parties in the ruling majority announced that the Serbian language should be given official status.
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According to the Constitution, the official language in Montenegro is Montenegrin, and Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian are in official use.
Vuković Kuč said that "a certain professor of the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac (Zoran Cvorovic)" recently presented the plan of the so-called of the "Serbian world" of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia Alexander Vulin and head of the Montenegrin parliament Andrije Mandić:
"Resolving the constitutional status of the Serbian language would automatically open up the question of the unsustainability of the civic character of Montenegro. Because a state that has two official languages, which are expressions of two different national identities and none of which has an absolute majority, cannot be a civil state," the DPS MP recalled Čvorović's words from an interview with a Belgrade portal.
Vuković Kuč assesses that Čvorović's message is the essence of the need for the authorities in Montenegro to make the state more like the national parties that make it up, if, he says, "due to the encroaching ethno-federalization of Montenegro under the baton of the tutor of the ruling majority Andrije Mandić, ethno-linguistic criteria for the destruction of the civic concept of Montenegrin society".
She announced that after the breakup of the SFRY, the common Serbo-Croatian language was "divided and distinguished in every state that restored its independence."
"This is precisely why the Constitution of Montenegro defined the Montenegrin language as official, the language created and codified after the referendum on independence, as the language of the state of Montenegro, in which other languages are also spoken, and which, regardless of the number of speakers, have the status of an official language use it," adds the interlocutor.
Vuković Kuč states that within the framework of the political understanding of language, the Montenegrin language is official, "because it is the state language of independent Montenegro, created from Serbo-Croatian as one of the national official languages, alongside Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian".
"The Montenegrin language is the language of civil Montenegro, the state language of the Montenegrin community, regardless of the national and religious declarations of its citizens", she assessed, saying that the Montenegrin language is "the official language of civil Montenegro and the common linguistic denominator of such its character".
According to her, if BS shares Mandić's attitude towards the official language, then, she says, their policy directly calls into question everything that they fought for and that is written in their program, which is a civil and European Montenegro.
"Nevertheless, I believe that there is enough sense and good intentions in BS not to give fuel to Mandić's ethno-federalist concept of organizing society. We will fight against this destructive, anti-Montenegrin and anti-European goal with all political means," underlined Vuković Kuč.
The Montenegrin language is the language of citizens of Montenegro, the state language of the Montenegrin community, regardless of the national and religious declarations of its citizens", stated the vice-president and deputy of the DPS
According to data from the census conducted in December last year, the majority of Montenegrin residents speak Serbian - 43,18 percent (269.307 citizens), followed by Montenegrin - 34,52 percent (215.299), and Bosnian - 6,97 percent (43.470).
Albanian is spoken by 5,25 percent of the population (32.725), Russian by 2,36 percent (14.731), and Serbo-Croatian by 2,08 percent (12.999). 1,71 percent of the population (10.691) did not want to say what language they speak.
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