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A language of Czech Republic

ISO 639-3
ces
Alternate Names
Bohemian
Autonym
Český jazyk, Čeština
User Population

10,532,000 in Czechia, all users. L1 users: 10,400,000 in Czechia (European Commission 2012). L2 users: 132,000 (European Commission 2012). Total users in all countries: 13,414,560 (as L1: 10,732,560; as L2: 2,682,000).

Location

Widespread.

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Language Status

1 (National). De facto national language.

Classification
Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, West, Czech-Slovak
Dialects

Central Bohemian, Czecho-Moravian, Hanak, Lach (Yalach), Northeast Bohemian, Southwest Bohemian. All Czech and Slovak dialects mutually inherently intelligible. Czech is also intelligible with Polish [pol].

Typology

SVO; prepositions; noun head final; gender (masculine/feminine/neuter); no articles; case-marking (7 cases); verb affixes mark person, number; passives; tense and aspect; comparatives; 26 consonant and 9 vowel phonemes; non-tonal; stress on first syllable.

Language Use

Some also use English [eng] (European Commission 2006). Some also use Russian [rus] (European Commission 2006). Some also use Standard German [deu] (European Commission 2006).

Language Development

Fully developed. Bible: 1380–1980.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Czech
Writing

Braille script [Brai]. Latin script [Latn], primary usage.

Other Comments

Christian.

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