by Jasmina Savic | What do you think is the youngest official state language in Europe? It is the language spoken by about 150,000 people of a small independent country in the Balkans whose total population counts 625,266. It is called Montenegrin. With the new Constitution New Constitution in 2007 this language became the official language of the independent nation of Montenegro . This language is called Montenegrin language . The question that arises is: why does only one-fourth of the entire Montenegrin population speak the official language? It is not because Montenegrin is a newly born, unique language that is still quite unknown to the citizens of Montenegro. On the contrary, this language is well known not only within the state of Montenegro but in neighboring countries as well. It is one of the four Ausbau languages (“ languages by extension, or construction” ), along with Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian, which diverged from the Yugoslav lingua franca , t...