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The Czechoslovak language (Czech: jazyk československý or českoslovenština, Slovak: Československý jazyk) was a political sociolinguistic concept used in Czechoslovakia in 1920–1938 [1] for the definition of the state language of the country which proclaimed its independence as the republic of two nations, i.e. ethnic groups, Czechs and Slovaks.
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 ...
Chc-i want- 1SG navštív-it visit- INF universit-u, university- SG. ACC, na on kter-ou which- SG. F. ACC chod-í attend- 3SG Jan. John. SG. NOM Chc-i navštív-it universit-u, na kter-ou chod-í Jan. want-1SG visit-INF university-SG.ACC, on which-SG.F.ACC attend-3SG John.SG.NOM I want to visit the university that John attends. Declension Main article: Czech declension In Czech, nouns and ...
It consisted in restoring forgotten Old Czech words, adopting from territorial dialects, spontaneously completing the vocabulary in the literary process, adopting words from other Slavic languages, deliberately creating words by derivation and composition and also in calquing from foreign languages. These sources were applied to varying degrees.
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 ...
WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription.
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.
Purists' attempts to cleanse the language of germanisms (both real and fictitious) had been occurring by that time. The publication of Josef Jungmann’s five-part Czech-German Dictionary (1830–1835) contributed to the renewal of Czech vocabulary. Thanks to the enthusiasm of Czech scientists, Czech scientific terminology was created.