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As the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), Czech is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia. [27]
It consisted in restoring forgotten Old Czech words, adopting from territorial dialects, spontaneously completing the vocabulary in the literary process, adopting words from other Slavic languages, deliberately creating words by derivation and composition and also in calquing from foreign languages. These sources were applied to varying degrees.
The Czech Wikipedia (Czech: Česká Wikipedie) is the Czech language edition of Wikipedia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Currently 2,482 active users and 33 administrators maintain the encyclopedia's 561,689 articles.
This is a list of words coming to English from or via Czech, or originating in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, often called Czech lands. Words and expressions derived from the Czech language are called Bohemisms. Absurdistan (in Czech Absurdistán) – word created by Eastern Bloc dissidents, passed into English mainly through works of Václav ...
The Czech German-language literature can be seen in the first half of the 20th century. Bible translations played a role in the development of Czech literature. The oldest Czech translation of the Psalms originated in the late 13th century and the first complete Czech translation of the Bible was finished around 1360. The first complete printed ...
Czech is a quantity language: it differentiates five vowel qualities that occur as both phonologically short and long. The short and long counterparts generally do not differ in their quality, although long vowels may be more peripheral than short vowels.
An example of Czenglish at the Campus of Charles University in Prague Beer bottle showing the Czech preference for the grammatically incorrect "Brewed in Czech" [1]. Czenglish, a portmanteau of the words Czech and English, refers to the interlanguage of English heavily influenced by Czech pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar or syntax spoken by learners of English as a second language.
The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic [16] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.