`  ::What are your criteria for differentiating between a ``language`` and a ``dialect`` ? As far as I'm aware there are no fixed rules. I'll ask some of the professors of Linguistics in my department if they think Montenegrin is a language. Chances are they'll say yes. Why? Because no one really cares and there is no fixed criteria. If some people want to call it a language fine, its a language. If others don't whatever. The only people who care either way are wierd nationalist types with their strange agendas. If ~123,251 human beings want to call it a language then who are you to judge? Wikipedia is not the encyclopaedia Britannica, if it was it would look much different. -  `