Czech–Slovak dialect continuum

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The Czech–Slovak dialect continuum is a group of closely related West Slavic dialects forming a gradual linguistic transition between Czech and Slovak without sharp boundaries.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Czech dialects 1
Czech–Moravian dialects 1
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum canonical 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf West Slavic dialect group
dialect continuum
characterizedBy absence of sharp dialect boundaries
gradual lexical transitions
gradual morphological transitions
gradual phonological transitions
mutual intelligibility between neighboring dialects
contrastedWith sharp language borders created by modern nation-states
hasFeature aspectual verb pairs
fixed initial stress in most dialects
rich case system
three-gender system
hasPart Bohemian dialects
Central Slovak dialects
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
surface form: Czech dialects

Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
surface form: Czech–Moravian dialects

Eastern Slovak dialects
Hanakian dialects
Kopanice dialects
Lach dialects
Lach dialects
surface form: Moravian dialects

Moravian–Slovak dialects
Myjava
surface form: Myjava dialects

Silesian dialects (Czech Silesian)
Slovak dialect continuum
surface form: Slovak dialects

Wallachian dialects
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Slovak dialects

Záhorie dialects
historicallyFormedFrom Proto-Slavic language
influencedBy language standardization in the 19th century
standard Czech
standard Slovak
languageBranch Balto-Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup West Slavic languages
languageSubbranch Slavic languages
partOf Slavic languages
West Slavic languages
relatedTo Czech language
Slovak language
spokenIn Czech Republic
Slovakia
historical region of Bohemia
historical region of Czech Silesia
historical region of Moravia
historical region of Slovakia
studiedIn dialectology of Czech
dialectology of Slovak
subgroupOf Czech–Slovak languages
usedBy Czech population
Slovak population

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

West Slavic languages includesLanguage Czech–Slovak dialect continuum
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum hasPart Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Czech dialects
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum hasPart Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Slovak dialects
Czech–Slovak dialect continuum hasPart Czech–Slovak dialect continuum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Czech–Moravian dialects