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Preferred term

cesCzech  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Czech (; čeština ) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century. Czech is similar to and mutually intelligible with Slovak and, to a lesser extent, with Polish and Sorbian.

Entry terms

  • Czech language

ISO 639-1 code

  • cs

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • cze

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ces

ISO 639-3 code

  • ces

Notation

  • ces

In other languages

  • Tchèque

    French

  • tchèque
  • Tschechisch

    German

  • Tschechische Sprache
  • ceco

    Italian

  • Lingua ceca
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tcheca
  • tcheco
  • checo

    Spanish

  • Idioma checo

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ces

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