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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

Not Available

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: 11 (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

Not Available
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Lach

Where They Speak

Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia

How Many People Speak

Not Available
700 80000000
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Dialect 3

Moravian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia

How Many People Speak

108,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
1400 96000000
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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)
0.13 1200
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Speaking Population

0.15 %
Rank: 49 (Overall)
0.11 89
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Native Speakers

11.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0.13 873
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Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
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Native Name

čeština / český jazyk

Alternative Names

Bohemian, Cestina

French Name

tchèque

German Name

Tschechisch

Pronunciation

Not Available

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: 51 (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

Not Available

Glottocode

czec1258

Linguasphere

53-AAA-da

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of Czech language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Czech language is one of the Best Languages to Learn. The origin of Czech language states that it was put to use in 9th Century. The history of Czech language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Czech Language History.The evolution of Czech language began with early forms such as Proto-Czech, Old Czech. Standard Czech is the standard form of Czech language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Czech Language.

Czech population

Czech population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Czech language. Czech language is spoken by 11.00 million people in the world. Most of the Czech population lies in the Czech Speaking Countries. Czech language is spoken as first language by 11.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Czech as second language. Get to know Czech speaking population in detail.

Czech writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Czech writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Czech language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Czech language. Learn more about . 

Information about Czech language

Check out all the information about Czech language here. You may find it interesting to learn Czech Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Czech Speaking Countries, Czech speaking continents and Czech Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Czech countries knowing common Czech Greetings will help you in communicating with Czech people.