Czech | |
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čeština, český jazyk | |
Native to | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and other worldwide. |
Ethnicity | Czechs, Moravians |
Native speakers | 10 million (2007)[1] |
Latin script (Czech alphabet) Czech Braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Czech Republic European Union Slovakia (partially) |
Regulated by | Institute of the Czech Language |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | cs |
ISO 639-2 | cze (B) ces (T) |
ISO 639-3 | ces |
Linguasphere | 53-AAA-da < 53-AAA-b...-d |
The Czech language is a Slavic language spoken by people in the Czech Republic. Ten million people speak it. It is very similar to the Slovak language; the differences between these two languages are small enough that speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand each other.
It has three genders[2] and is an inflected language like Latin. The grammar is much more complex than that of English.