Montenegrin alphabet

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The Montenegrin alphabet encompasses the Montenegrin variants of Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, the two writing systems of Montenegrin language, a standard variant of Serbo-Croatian. They are based on Gaj's Latin and Serbian Cyrillic alphabet respectively, both expanded by two letters, ⟨ś⟩ and ⟨ź⟩ in Latin, and ⟨с́⟩ and ⟨з́⟩ in Cyrillic, in order to represent phonemes /ɕ/ and /ʑ/. The letters of the two alphabets correspond to each other one-to-one, allowing nearly unambiguous conversion from one to the other, as is also the case for Gaj's Latin and Serbian Cyrillic. The new letters were officially introduced in 2009. Usage of the new letters is not mandatory, and the traditional spellings as found in other varieties of Serbo-Croatian remain standard in Montenegrin as well. Although Cyrillic and Latin are recognised as equal scripts by the Constitution of Montenegro, in contemporary usage the Latin script is predominant.

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