Czech language

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Czech language is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in the Czech Republic and known for its rich literary tradition and complex grammar.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Czech 15
Old Czech 2
Standard Czech 2

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
Slavic language
West Slavic language
closelyRelatedTo Polish language
Silesian language
Slovak language
developedFrom Proto-Slavic language
hasColloquialForm Common Czech
hasDialectsIn Bohemia
Moravia
hasFeature aspectual verb system
complex consonant clusters
consonant palatalization
fixed initial-stress accent
grammatical gender
rich inflectional morphology
seven grammatical cases
vowel length distinction
hasHistoricalStage Middle Czech
Modern Czech
Czech language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Old Czech
hasMajorWork Bible of Kralice
The Good Soldier Švejk
hasNotableAuthor Alois Jirásek
Božena Němcová
Jaroslav Hašek
Karel Čapek
Václav Havel
hasPhoneme ř
hasStandardForm Czech language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Czech
ISO639-1Code cs
ISO639-2Code ces
cze
ISO639-3Code ces
languageBranch Balto-Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup Slavic languages
nativeTo Czech Republic
officialLanguageOf Czech Republic
regulatedBy Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences
standardBasedOn Prague dialect
subgroup West Slavic languages
usedBy Czechs
surface form: Czech people
usedIn Czech government
Czech media
education in the Czech Republic
usesAlphabet Czech alphabet
usesDiacritics háček
kroužek
čárka
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (32)

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

Common Slavic ancestorOf Czech language
Czech American ancestralLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Slovak language closelyRelatedTo Czech language
Silesian language hasAncestor Czech language
Czech language hasHistoricalStage Czech language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Old Czech
Joachim hasLanguageOfUse Czech language
Maximilian hasLanguageOfUse Czech language
Miroslav hasLanguageOfUse Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Richard hasLanguageOfUse Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Edvard hasLanguageUsage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
this entity surface form: Czech
Czech language hasStandardForm Czech language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Czech
this entity surface form: Standard Czech
Lachians historicalLanguageContact Czech language
Slavic languages includeLanguage Czech language
Slavic languages includeLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Old Czech
West Slavic languages includesLanguage Czech language
Silesian language influencedBy Czech language
Czech Air Force language Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Czech lands languageHistoricallySpoken Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Czech koruna languageOfName Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Clara languageOfUse Czech language
subject surface form: Klara
this entity surface form: Czech
this entity surface form: Czech
Madeleine Albright languagesSpoken Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Czech Republic officialLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Prague officialLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Sorbian languages relatedTo Czech language
Eva usedInLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Joel usedInLanguage Czech language
this entity surface form: Czech
Czech gymnastics (Sokol) usesLanguage Czech language