Czech is a West Slavic language, closely related to and substantially mutually intelligible with Slovak, and the official language of the Czech Republic. Standard written Czech and the everyday spoken language, often called Common Czech, diverge enough in everyday vocabulary and grammar that the relationship is sometimes described by linguists as a mild diglossia.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count Attested From (Year) RegionCzech Republic (official); minority-language status in Slovakia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine 7 Classification
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Difficulty for an English Speaker Czech
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Source Daisies (film) (Wikipedia)LeadQuote, Lead
Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak satirical comedy film
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1. Glottolog: Czech (Glottolog languoid czec1258)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
David Crystal (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2010Official status, Czech entity page
Czech is a West Slavic language, closely related to and substantially mutually intelligible with Slovak, and the official language of the Czech Republic.
- In Family: Slavic
3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Czech / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech
5. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
SIL International, 2024- ISO 639-3 Code: cs
- Speaker Count: 10,700,000
- Status: Living
View the Source 6. Omniglot: Czech language, alphabet and pronunciation
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First written : 12th century
7. Wikipedia: Czech Language
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
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