Culture and Customs of Montenegro

Arts, Crafts, and Architecture

Arts

Crafts

Architecture

Museums

Customs and Traditions

Local Traditions

Etiquette

Dress and Behavior

Sensitive or Taboo Topics

Languages

Like the country itself or the broader Balkans, Montenegro has a mosaic of languages. While Montenegrin is the official language, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, and Croatian are also officially recognized and widely spoken locally.

In practice, all these languages—particularly Serbian and Montenegrin—are relatively close to one another, and people generally manage to understand each other. As is often the case in the region, the differences stem more from the populations' origins, with a differentiation that is more "political" (notably in relation to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia) than linguistic or cultural. It is worth noting that while Montenegro uses the Latin alphabet, this is not entirely the case with its neighbor Serbia, which also uses the Cyrillic alphabet.