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Czech language

The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian, and Sorbian. It is spoken by most people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (about 12 million native speakers in total).

Czech (Česká)
Spoken in:Czech Republic
Total speakers: 12 Million
Ranking:73
Genetic
classification:
Indo-European
 Slavic
  West
   Czech-Slovak
    Czech
Official status
Official language of:Czech Republic
Regulated by:Czech Language Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1: cs
ISO 639-2(B):cze
ISO 639-2(T):ces
SIL: CZC

Due to its complexity it is said to be a difficult language to learn. The complexity has several sources:

It shares these features with other Slavonic languages such as Russian.

For foreigners even spoken Czech may be very difficult. For example, some words do not appear to have vowels: zmrzl, ztvrdl, scvrnkl, čtvrthrst. The consonants l and r, however, function as sonorants and thus fulfill the role of a vowel. It also has special consolant ř, that is said to be unique for Czech language and almost impossible for foreigner to pronounce.

Je to krutá pravda ...example of Czech language

Table of contents
1 Morphology
2 External links

Morphology

Word kind

  1. noun (podstatné jméno)
  2. adjective (přídavné jméno)
  3. pronoun (zájmeno)
  4. number (číslovka)
  5. verb (sloveso)
  6. adverb (příslovce)
  7. preposition (předložka)
  8. conjunction (spojka)
  9. particle (částice)
  10. interjection (citoslovce)

Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numbers and verbs are flexible kinds; remaining kinds have no morphology. Flexible kinds have additional morphological attributes.

Declensions

  • nominative
  • accusative
  • genitive
  • dative
  • instrumental
  • locative
  • vocative

Number

(Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs)

  • singular (book --kniha)
  • plural (books -- knihy)

Gender

(Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numbers, verbs)

  • Masculine animate, live beings (the men worked -- muži pracovali)
  • Masculine inanimate, other (the machines worked -- stroje pracovaly)
  • Feminine (the women worked -- ženy pracovaly)
  • Neuter (the creatures worked -- stvoření pracovala)

See also:

External links





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