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Czech is a quantity language: it differentiates five vowel qualities that occur as both phonologically short and long. The short and long counterparts generally do not differ in their quality, although long vowels may be more peripheral than short vowels.
Moravian dialects (Czech: moravská nářečí, moravština) are the varieties of Czech spoken in Moravia, a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic.There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of the Czech Republic.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Czech language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
A popular misconception holds that eastern Moravian dialects are closer to Slovak than Czech, but this is incorrect; in fact, the opposite is true, and certain dialects in far western Slovakia exhibit features more akin to standard Czech than to standard Slovak. [8] The Czech Statistical Office in 2003 recognized the following Moravian dialects ...
Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech.The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, the namesake of the Hussite movement, in one of his seminal works, De orthographia bohemica (On Bohemian orthography).
For the above reasons Czech specialists hypothize that groups of Romanian shepherds from present-day Romania (Transylvania, Banat) or present-day eastern Serbia, settled in East Moravia at the latest in the 15th–17th centuries. [2] In the local dialect the forest-mountain-refuge was known as hora. The influence expanded to toponymy as well ...
Moravia within the European Union. Moravians (Czech: Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.
The Czech–Slovak languages (or Czecho-Slovak) are a subgroup within the West Slavic languages comprising the Czech and Slovak languages.. Most varieties of Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible, forming a dialect continuum (spanning the intermediate Moravian dialects) rather than being two clearly distinct languages; standardised forms of these two languages are, however, easily ...