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Countries

Countries

Czech Republic, European Union
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Czech Republic
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Institute of the Czech Language
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

3210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

329
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ahoj
hallo

Thank You

děkuji
Danke

How Are You?

Jak se máš?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

dobrou noc
gute Nacht

Good Evening

dobrý večer
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

dobré odpoledne
guten Tag

Good Morning

dobré ráno
guten Morgen

Please

prosím
bitte

Sorry

litovat
Verzeihung

Bye

sbohem
Tschüs

I Love You

Miluji tě
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

promiňte
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chod
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Chodsko, Bohemia
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lach
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
Germany

How Many People Speak

10,500,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Moravian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
Texas

How Many People Speak

108,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

11.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.15 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

11.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

čeština / český jazyk
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Bohemian, Cestina
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

tchèque
allemand

German Name

Tschechisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Czechs
Germans

History

Origin

9th Century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Germanic

Branch

Western
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Czech, Old Czech
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Czech
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

739
1 120
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Signed Forms

Czech Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cs
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ces
deu

ISO 639 2/B

cze
ger

ISO 639 3

ces
deu

ISO 639 6

ces
deus

Glottocode

czec1258
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

53-AAA-da
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Czech and German Alphabets

Czech and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Czech and German. In Czech Alphabets there are 42 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Czech and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Czech and German languages. The Czech phonology consist Czech vowels and Czech consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Czech greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Czech and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Czech and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Czech and German dialects. Various dialects of Czech and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Czech are spoken in different Czech Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Czech vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Czech dialects include: Chod, Lach. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Czech and German Speaking population

Czech and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Czech and German languages can be compared. The total count of Czech and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Czech language is 0.15 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Czech and German on Czech vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Czech and German Language Codes

Czech and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Czech and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.