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 RegionCzech Republic (official); minority-language status in Slovakia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine 3 Classification
Official Status Czech
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Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
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Source Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
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1. 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
2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
3. Wikipedia: Czech Language
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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