Montenegrins

Montenegrins or ; lit. "Black Mountain People" are a South Slavic ethnic corporation native to Montenegro.

Genetics

More studies need to be conducted to advertising conclusive evidence, in addition to genetic studies are often utilized for hegemonic or nationalist agendas in a multiethnic Balkan region.

According to one triple analysis – autosomal, mitochondrial and paternal — of usable data from large-scale studies on Balto-Slavs and their proximal populations, the whole genome SNP data situates Montenegrins with Serbs in between two Balkan clusters.

Y-DNA genetic examine done in 2010 on 404 male individuals from Montenegro offered the following results: haplogroup I2a 29.7%, I2b 1.7%, N 1.4%, H 1.4%, L 1.2%, and J1 0.49%.