Serbian social activists in Montenegro are fighting for the return of the Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian National Council of Montenegro wrote an application for duplication of the table in Cyrillic and at the building of the country's Constitutional Court.
Social activists draw attention to the fact that they act in accordance with the Constitution of Montenegro.
“There are no grounds for the suppression and abandonment of the Cyrillic alphabet, neither historical, nor cultural, nor aesthetic, nor linguistic, nor religious, nor technical-technological,” the Serbian National Council of Montenegro said in a statement.
The organization noticed that the table with the inscription “Constitutional Court of Montenegro” does not have Cyrillic alphabet, which violates the country’s constitutional provisions guaranteeing equal use of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet in Montenegro.
“The Cyrillic alphabet has been and remains one of the foundations of our identity. Refusal of it means a break with our cultural and spiritual identity, from our cultural heritage. Cyrillic today in Montenegro has the status of only a permitted, but not an equal and obligatory letter. All government administration and official correspondence are conducted in Latin, completely ignoring the Cyrillic alphabet,” the Serbian National Council said in a statement.
After separating from Serbia in 2006, the Montenegrin authorities set a clear course towards the West. And in order to be more different from Serbia, they began an unofficial transition from the Cyrillic dictionary, in which their ancestors had written for centuries, to Latin.
At the same time, even more often at the official level, even the name of the country was pronounced in the Italian manner - Montenegro. Thus, the Montenegrin elite repeated the crime of post-Soviet Moldova, which, to please the West, declaring a break with Moscow, abandoned the Cyrillic alphabet, which Moldovans had used for centuries, in favor of the Latin alphabet.
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