The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian, and Sorbian. It is spoken by most people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (about 11 million native speakers in total).
Due to its complexity it is said to be a difficult language to learn. The complexity has several sources:
It shares these features with other Slavonic languages such as Russian.
For foreigners even spoken Czech may be very difficult. For example, some words do not appear to have vowels: zmrzl, ztvrdl, scvrnkl, ctvrthrst. The consonants l and r, however, function as sonorants and thus fulfill the role of a vowel.
Je to krutá pravda ...example of Czech language
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Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numbers and verbs are flexible kinds; remaining kinds have no morphology. Flexible kinds have additional morphological attributes.
(Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs)
(Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numbers, verbs)
See also:
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