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- Czech is the official state language and as a literary language dates to the late 13th century. The majority of the population speaks Czech as their first language. Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible languages belonging to the West Slavic language group, which uses the Latin (Roman) rather than the Cyrillic alphabet.
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2 days ago · Czech Republic - Culture, Cuisine, Music: The territory of the Czech Republic traditionally has been between the German and Slav lands, and Czech cultural traditions are a mixture of both. Influences from farther afield also have been strong.
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5 days ago · The majority of the population speaks Czech as their first language. Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible languages belonging to the West Slavic language group, which uses the Latin (Roman) rather than the Cyrillic alphabet. Among the other languages spoken by minorities in the Czech Republic are Romani, German, and Polish. Religion
2 days ago · Czech Republic, country located in central Europe. It comprises the historical provinces of Bohemia and Moravia along with the southern tip of Silesia, collectively called the Czech Lands. In 2016 the country adopted the name ‘Czechia’ as a shortened, informal name for the Czech Republic.
5 days ago · Czech belongs to the Slavic group of languages. The central European nation is ethnically quite homogeneous. The only noticeable minority is Roms (Gypsies), who are bilingual.
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3 days ago · Hearing the text sung idiomatically by the 80 strong professional choristers of the Prague Philharmonic Choir was a revelation. Their sound, complete with that unique Slavic tang, was homogenous, and it was evident throughout that they’d been expertly drilled by choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek.
5 days ago · “The German-speaking world has a tendency to look at Czech music of the 19th century from too strongly a German perspective – as if it’s an exotic, Slavic branch of German music and it’s only the exoticism which gives the music an additional value.
2 days ago · Although most dialects of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible (see Comparison of Slovak and Czech), eastern Slovak dialects are less intelligible to speakers of Czech and closer to Polish and East Slavic, and contact between speakers of Czech and speakers of the eastern dialects is limited.
