27 Facts About Czech language

The main non-standard variety, known as Common Czech language, is based on the vernacular of Prague, but is spoken as an interdialect throughout most of the Czech language Republic.

Czech language has a moderately-sized phoneme inventory, comprising ten monophthongs, three diphthongs and 25 consonants.

The function of the written Czech language was initially performed by Old Slavonic written in Glagolitic, later by Latin written in Latin script.

Bohemian language is first recorded in writing in glosses and short notes during the 12th to 13th centuries.

Literary works written in Czech language appear in the late 13th and early 14th century and administrative documents first appear towards the late 14th century.

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Old Czech language texts, including poetry and cookbooks, were produced outside universities.

Dobrovsky had intended his book to be descriptive, and did not think Czech had a realistic chance of returning as a major language.

Adherence to historical patterns was later relaxed and standard Czech language adopted a number of features from Common Czech language, such as leaving some proper nouns undeclined.

Czech language is spoken by about 10 million residents of the Czech language Republic.

Standard Czech language contains ten basic vowel phonemes, and three diphthongs.

Czech language uses grammatical case to convey word function in a sentence, its word order is flexible.

In practice word order is flexible and used to distinguish topic and focus, with the topic or theme preceding the focus or rheme in a sentence; Czech has therefore been described as a topic-prominent language.

When Czech children learn their language's declension patterns, the cases are referred to by number:.

Czech language verbs agree with their subjects in person, number, and in constructions involving participles, which includes the past tense, in gender.

Present tense in Czech language is formed by adding an ending which agrees with the person and number of the subject at the end of the verb stem.

Czech language verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional.

Czech language borrowed words not present in Czech from other Slavic languages or created neologisms.

Standard Czech is the formal register of the language which is used in official documents, formal literature, newspaper articles, education and occasionally public speeches.

Main Czech language vernacular, spoken primarily in Bohemia including the capital Prague, is known as Common Czech language.

Common Czech language has become ubiquitous in most parts of the Czech language Republic since the later 20th century.

Common Czech language is not codified, but some of its elements have become adopted in the written standard.

Since the second half of the 20th century, Common Czech language elements have been spreading to regions previously unaffected, as a consequence of media influence.

The colloquial form of Standard Czech language finds limited use in daily communication due to the expansion of the Common Czech language interdialect.

Common Czech language phonology is based on that of the Central Bohemian dialect group, which has a slightly different set of vowel phonemes to Standard Czech language.

Czech language dialects spoken in Moravia and Silesia are known as Moravian.

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Czech language vocabulary derives primarily from Slavic, Baltic and other Indo-European roots.

Some Czech words have been borrowed as loanwords into English and other languages—for example, robot and polka.