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Within that state, the Czech Socialist Republic (Česká socialistická republika, ČSR) [9] was created on 1 January 1969. [13] On 6 March 1990 the Czech Socialist Republic was renamed the Czech Republic (Česká republika, ČR). [14] When Czechoslovakia broke up in 1993, the Czech part of the name was intended to serve as the name of the ...
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H:IPA-CS. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Czech language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Czech phonology for a more thorough ...
The Czech Republic emerged from the peaceful breakup of the old Czechoslovakia in 1993 -- but until now there hasn't been a standard one-word English name.
From 1991, the Czech Republic, originally as part of Czechoslovakia and since 1993 in its own right, has been a member of the Visegrád Group and from 1995, the OECD. The Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999 and the European Union on 1 May 2004. On 21 December 2007 the Czech Republic joined the Schengen Area.
Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. [ 7 ] Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order.
The phoneme / r̝ /, written ř , is a raised alveolar non-sonorant trill. Its rarity makes it difficult to produce for most foreign learners of Czech, who may pronounce it as [rʒ]; however, it contrasts with /rʒ/ in words like ržát [rʒaːt] ('to neigh'), which is pronounced differently from řád [r̝aːt] ('order').
Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, the namesake of the Hussite movement, in one of his seminal works, De orthographia bohemica (On Bohemian orthography).