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Czech language

Czech: Official language of Czech Republic.

Number of Czech Speakers: 15 million in Czech Republic and 12 million in other countries.

Czech Speakers: In Austria, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Croatia, Australia, Canada, and the United States (90,000).

Language Classification: Slavic language family.

Czech Alphabet: Modified Roman alphabet.

Czech Orthography: Seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, instrumental, and vocative).

Czech Language History: Influenced by German language. Changes made between the 10th and 16 centuries made it different than other Slavic languages. Czech was one of the two languages of former Czechoslovakia. It became the official language of the Czech Republic after Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1993.

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Czech Standardization Efforts: Ruling by Hapsburg of Austria from 1620 to 1918 delayed reforms and standardization.

Modern Czech - Major Events: Modern Czech period started in the 17th century.

Czech language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Czech language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Czech.

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