From what I've seen, Montenegrin (aka
Serbo-Croatian)evolved from an old Slavic language and
is related to Serbian, Croat, and Bosnian (all of
which fell under the name of "Serbo-Croatian" during
Communist times). However it has certain unique
characteristics and a few extra letters. But I think,
basically, these differences are almost on the dialect
level. Though native speakers would know much more
than me. See http://www.montenegro.org/language.html

There is a Romanian minority (200,000 to 300,000) in
Serb. & Mont.
I had the same question on the communes; I guessed
they were tertiary or quartinary, but I would like to
know, too.

--- John Seeliger <jseelige@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Kaufman" <mikekaufman79@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:15 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Adios, Yugoslavia...
>
>
> > ...and welcome, Serbia and Montenegro
> >
> > Maybe in 3 years or so we can all stand on the
> > Serb-Mont. internal boundary at the official
> moment
> > when it becomes an international boundary.
> >
> >
>

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/04/yugoslavia.end.ap/index.html

> >
> > http://msnbc.com/news/868607.asp?cp1=1
>
> Thanks for the links. Does Montenegro speak any
> Romance language? It seems
> like a Latin name.
>
> On the subject of the octo-point, are communes like
> states? counties?
>
> OT but maybe of interest: _Nova_ "Battle of the
> XPlanes"
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/
>
>
>

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