Category talk:Serb communities in Montenegro

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This is a ridiculous category. There is no such thing as "Serb communities" in Montenegro, like there are no other nationally defined communities. It is an arbitrary designation with no clear definition, and as such needs to be deleted. Sideshow Bob 06:46, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Your comment is ridiculous. Serbs are an ethnic group in Montenegro, and are majority in countless settlements (communities). See Category:Communities by ethnic group.--Zoupan 19:51, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Co-official language at local level with 15%

• Original text: Zakon o nacionalnim manjinama, sa druge strane, precizira da procenat pripadnika nacionalne manjine u ukupnom broju stanovnika jedinice lokalne samouprave treba da iznosi 15 odsto da bi njihov jezik i pismo bili u službenoj upotrebi.
• Source: Page 8 of "Manjine u Crnoj Gori zakonodavstvo i praksa" (PDF). Youth Initiative for Human Rights. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
• Translated: The Law on National Minorities, on the other hand, specifies that the percentage of members of the national minority in the total number of inhabitants of the local self-government unit should amount to 15 percent so that their language and script would be in official use.

This law builds upon the Constitution of Montenegro, Article 13 (Language and alphabet):

1. The official language in Montenegro shall be Montenegrin.
2. Cyrillic and Latin alphabet shall be equal.
3. Serbian, Bosniac, Albanian and Croatian shall also be in the official use.

We seem to be dealing with a very similar situation as with Category:Municipalities in Slovakia where Hungarian is an official language, Category:Populated places in Croatia where Italian is an official language, Category:Populated places in Croatia where Hungarian is an official language etc. We just need to find the official Montenegrin govt list which documents all those local self-government units where the number of native speakers of a minority language passes the threshold of 15%. We should also do this for Croatian communities, Bosnian/Bosniak communities, and Albanian communities. Once we've got that, we've got objective criteria for this category, we can do some corrections, and rename it to conform to those other renamings. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 00:21, 21 July 2023 (UTC)