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ABOUT CZECH
Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic, spoken by virtually the entire population. It is written in Roman script and is very closely related to Slovak, which is spoken in Slovakia. Czech and Slovak are both Slavic (or Slavonic) languages and are estimated to be about 90 percent mutually intelligible.

The historical foundations of the Czech alphabet were laid in the 15th century by the great religious reformer Jan Hus. German influenced the Czech language later, when Austria dominated Bohemia and Moravia. The Prague dialect is the basis for standard written Czech, also known as Standard or Literary Czech. The colloquial spoken form of the language is called Common Czech, which is rooted in Central Bohemia.

Nouns (which are feminine, masculine, and neuter) are declined in six declensions (inflections), and adjectives in one. Gender and number (singular or plural) are distinguished by inflectional endings on stems. Czech also marks an animate/inanimate distinction for masculine nouns. The language has no definite article.

The letter r serves as a vowel, producing such words as krk (neck) and smrt (death). The letters q, w, and x are used only in foreign words. The letter c is pronounced ts and j as y (jazyk = language). The chevron over č, š, and ž produces the ch, sh, and zh sounds respectively. When there is more than one syllable, the stress is always on the first.