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Countries

Countries

Czech Republic, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Czech Republic

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia

Regulated By

Institute of the Czech Language

Interesting Facts

  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.

Similar To

Polish, Slovak and Sorbian

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

42
Rank: 22 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

32
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

32
Rank: 22 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ahoj

Thank You

děkuji

How Are You?

Jak se máš?

Good Night

dobrou noc

Good Evening

dobrý večer

Good Afternoon

dobré odpoledne

Good Morning

dobré ráno

Please

prosím

Sorry

litovat

Bye

sbohem

I Love You

Miluji tě

Excuse Me

promiňte

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chod

Where They Speak

Chodsko, Bohemia

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00
Rank: 36 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lach

Where They Speak

Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia

How Many People Speak

10,500,000.00
Rank: 36 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Moravian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia

How Many People Speak

108,000.00
Rank: 67 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

13
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

11.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.15 %
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

11.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

čeština / český jazyk

Alternative Names

Bohemian, Cestina

French Name

tchèque

German Name

Tschechisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]

Ethnicity

Czechs

History

Origin

9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Czech, Old Czech

Standard Forms

Standard Czech

Language Position

73
Rank: 61 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Czech Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cs

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ces

ISO 639 2/B

cze

ISO 639 3

ces

ISO 639 6

ces

Glottocode

czec1258

Linguasphere

53-AAA-da

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Czech

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Czech Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Czech Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Czech. Czech phonology gives Czech vowels and Czech consonants. There are 32 vowels and 32 consonants in Czech language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Czech is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Czech language is given in detail in this section.

All Czech countries

Want to explore all Czech countries? About Czech language serves you with all Czech Speaking Countries. Countries that use Czech as official language are called as Czech countries.

  • Countries that use Czech as their National Language are: Czech Republic.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Czech as second language are: Czech is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Czech greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Czech Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Czech language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Czech language.Learn Czech greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ahoj
  • Thank you: děkuji
  • Good Morning: dobré ráno
  • Good Evening: dobrý večer
  • Good Afternoon: dobré odpoledne

All Czech Language Codes

Get to know all Czech language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Czech Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.