The Montenegrin PEN Center () is the national chapter of the
International PEN
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous Internationa ...
in
Montenegro
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. It was formed in 1990, as one-party Communist rule in what was then
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
was ending.
The center has worked to promote the use of the
Montenegrin language
Montenegrin ( ; cnr, label=none, / ) is a normative variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Montenegrins and is the official language of Montenegro. Montenegrin is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavi ...
. It published
Vojislav Nikčević
Vojislav Nikčević ( cyrl, Војислав Никчевић; 18 January 1935 – 2 July 2007) was a Montenegrin linguist.
Life
Nikčević was born in village near Nikšić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was educated at the University of Zagre ...
's ''Crnogorski pravopis'' in 1997, the first orthography for Montenegrin.
Dictionaries
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References
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