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This is a list of words coming to English from or via Czech, or originating in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, often called Czech lands. Words and expressions derived from the Czech language are called Bohemisms. Absurdistan (in Czech Absurdistán) – word created by Eastern Bloc dissidents, passed into English mainly through works of Václav ...
An example of Czenglish at the Campus of Charles University in Prague Beer bottle showing the Czech preference for the grammatically incorrect "Brewed in Czech" [1]. Czenglish, a portmanteau of the words Czech and English, refers to the interlanguage of English heavily influenced by Czech pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar or syntax spoken by learners of English as a second language.
With the exception of Spanish (the non-English language most commonly spoken at home nationwide), Czech was the most common home language in more than a dozen additional counties in Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, North Dakota and Minnesota. [31]
Basic Czech dictionary, contains 45,366 headwords, intended primarily for use in schools and for laymen. Online as part of the Internet Language Reference Book. Havránek, Bohuslav, et al. Slovník spisovného jazyka českého. (SSJČ) 2nd ed. Praha: Academia, 1989. 8 vols.
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.
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 ...
The Czech language usually employs different romanization systems than English (for example, the standard Czech romanization of the Chinese name 青岛 is Čching-tao, as opposed to its Hanyu Pinyin transliteration Qīngdǎo or to Wade–Giles Ch'ing-tao).
The Czech Wikipedia (Czech: Česká Wikipedie) is the Czech language edition of Wikipedia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Currently 2,468 active users and 33 administrators maintain the encyclopedia's 561,782 articles.