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The official language of the Czech Republic is Czech. [1] German, Polish, Hungarian, and Ukrainian are recognized as official minority languages. [2] Vietnamese and Belarusian became officially recognized as minority languages in the Czech Republic in 2013, which included the right to use those languages in courts and public places as well as in broadcast radio and television. [3]
The Polish minority in Czechoslovakia (Polish: Polska mniejszość w Czechosłowacji, Czech: Polská národnostní menšina v Československu, Slovak: Poľská menšina v Československu) (today the Polish minority in the Czech Republic and Slovakia) is the Polish national minority living mainly in the Trans-Olza region of western Cieszyn Silesia.
Along with the Silesians of the Czech Republic, a part of the population to identify ethnically as Moravian has registered in Czech censuses since 1991. The figure has fluctuated and in the 2011 census, 6.01% [ 4 ] of the Czech population declared Moravian as their ethnicity.
There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of the Czech Republic. The main four groups of dialects are the Bohemian-Moravian group, the Central Moravian group, the Eastern Moravian group and the Lach (Silesian) group (which is also spoken in Czech Silesia). [2] While the forms are generally viewed as regional ...
In the Czech Republic, national minorities are afforded classic national minority rights, including government funding for the protection of their language and culture. In recent years, the Vietnamese community has sought recognition as a national minority.
A Cieszyn Silesian dialect speaker, recorded in the Czech Republic. Rest in peace grave inscription in Cieszyn Silesian dialect.. The Cieszyn Silesian dialect or Teschen Silesian dialect [2] (Cieszyn Silesian: cieszyńsko rzecz; [3] Polish: gwara cieszyńska or narzecze cieszyńskie; Czech: těšínské nářečí; Silesian: ćeszyński djalekt) is one of the Silesian dialects.
Polski Związek Kulturalno-Oświatowy (commonly known as PZKO; Czech: Polský kulturně-osvětový svaz, meaning "Polish Cultural and Educational Union") is a Polish organization in the Czech Republic. It represents the Polish minority in the Czech Republic together with the Congress of Poles. PZKO is the largest Polish organization with ...
(The Administrative Rule) in its paragraph 16 (4) (Procedural Language) provides that a citizen of the Czech Republic who belongs to a national or an ethnic minority, which traditionally and on a long-term basis lives within the territory of the Czech Republic, has the right to address an administrative agency and proceed before it in the ...