Czech Language: West Slavic language
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.
| Czech | |
|---|---|
| čeština, český jazyk | |
| Native to | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other worldwide. |
| Ethnicity | Czechs, Moravians |
Native speakers | 10 million (2007) |
| Latin script (Czech alphabet) Czech Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Czech Republic European Union Slovakia (partially) |
| Regulated by | Institute of the Czech Language |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | cs |
| ISO 639-2 | cze (B) ces (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | ces |
| Linguasphere | 53-AAA-da < 53-AAA-b...-d |
It has three genders and is an inflected language like Latin. The grammar is much more complex than that of English.
References
Other websites
- mluvtečesky.net – website for learning Czech language Archived 2020-04-10 at the Wayback Machine (in many languages)
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