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Czech ( / tʃɛk /; endonym: čeština [ˈtʃɛʃcɪna] ), historically also known as Bohemian [5] ( / boʊˈhiːmiən, bə -/; [6] Latin: lingua Bohemica ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. [5] . Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic.
- Czech-Slovak
The Czech–Slovak languages (or Czecho-Slovak) are a subgroup...
- Czech Phonology
Czech is not a tonal language. Tones or melodies are not...
- Czech Republic
The Czech German-language literature can be seen in the...
- Czech-Slovak
The Czech language is a Slavic language spoken by people in the Czech Republic. Ten million people speak it. It is very similar to the Slovak language; the differences between these two languages are small enough that speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand each other.
- 10 million (2007)
- Czechs, Moravians
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The Czech-Slav Society (also called the Society for the Czechoslovak Language and Literature) was created in 1829 by students of the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava (German: Preßburg or Pressburg), and became an important entity in the Slovak national movement. In 1836, Ľudovít Štúr, the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, w...
Václav Dědina (1936). Československá vlastivěda(in Czech). Vol. 5. Praha: Sfinx. p. 164.Ján Gronský (2005). Komentované dokumenty k ústavním dějinám Československa (in Czech). Praha: Univerzita Karlova. p. 107. ISBN 9788024610276.Josef Holub (1933). Stručný slovník etymologický jazyka československého[A Short Etymological Dictionary of the Czechoslovak Language]. Prague: Státní nakladatelství.František Cyril Kampelík (1847). Krása a wýbornosti česko-slowenského jazyka, jímžto asi 8 milionů lidí w Čechách a na Morawě, we Slezsku a Slowensku mluwí [The Beauty and Excellence of the Czech-S...- –
- Czechoslovakia (1920–1948)
The Czech language developed at the close of the 1st millennium from common West Slavic. Until the early 20th century, it was known as Bohemian . Early West Slavic. Among the innovations in common West Slavic is the palatalization of velar ch > š ( vьšь 'all'), while s ( vьsь) developed in the East and South Slavic dialects.
Native name: čeština [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]; český jazyk [ˈt͡ʃɛskiː jɛzɪk] Language family: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, West Slavic. Number of speakers: c. 13.3 million. Spoken in: Czechia, Slovakia, USA, Serbia, Austria, Croatia, Poland, Romania. First written: 12th century. Writing system: Latin alphabet.
The Czech language is spoken by approximately 12 million people around the world, but the vast majority are in the Czech Republic. It developed from the Proto-Slavic language in the 10th century and is mutually intelligible with the Slovak language. Religion Predecessor to Protestantism, Jan Hus
