Czech
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 Czech pages
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| Slavic Languages | |
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| Eastern Slavic |  Belarusian ·  Russian ·  Ukrainian
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| Southern Slavic |  Bulgarian ·  Macedonian ·  Old Church Slavonic ·  Serbo-Croatian ( Bosnian  Croatian  Montenegrin Serbian) ·  Slovene
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| Western Slavic | Czech ·  Kashubian ·  Polish ·  Silesian ·  Slovak ·  Lower Sorbian ·  Upper Sorbian
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An Introduction to the Language
History
The Czech language developed from Proto-Slavic at the close of the 1st millennium. The language was known as Bohemian until the late 19th century in English. Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser extent, to Polish and Sorbian.
Family
Indo-European
- Slavic
- West Slavic
- Czech-Slovak
- Czech
- Czech-Slovak
- West Slavic
Spoken in
Czech is an official language in the Czech Republic and the European Union, with about 12 million speakers.
