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Czech Language

Czech
Bohemian
čeština, český jazyk
Native to Czech Republic
Native speakers
10.6 million (2012)
Latin script (Czech alphabet)
Czech Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Czech Republic
 European Union
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated by Institute of the Czech Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1 cs
ISO 639-2  (B)
 (T)
ISO 639-3
Glottolog czec1258
Linguasphere 53-AAA-da < 53-AAA-b...-d
(varieties: 53-AAA-daa to 53-AAA-dam)
Idioma checo.PNG
  regions where Czech is the language of the majority
  regions where Czech is the language of a significant minority
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Czech (/ˈɛk/; čeština Czech pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]), historically also Bohemian (/bˈhmiən, bə-/;lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, that is strongly influenced by Latin and German. It is spoken by over 10 million people and is the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of being mutually intelligible to a very high degree.

The Czech-Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardisation of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerges in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard was codified in the context of the Czech National Revival. The main vernacular, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of Prague, but is now spoken throughout most of the Czech Republic. The Moravian dialects spoken in the eastern part of the country are mostly also counted as Czech, although some of their eastern variants are closer to Slovak.


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