Czech introduction

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The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, and Sorbian. It is spoken by people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (mostly in USA, Canada, Poland, Slovakia). Czech has about 12 million native speakers in total.

Due to its complexity it is said to be a difficult language to learn. The complexity has several sources:

  • extensive morphology (some words have over 200 possible word forms)
  • very flexible word order
  • consonant clusters: the consonants l and r can sometimes function as sonorants and thus fulfill the role of a vowel; therefore you can see and hear words like the 8-consonant scvrnkls (= you pinged off a surface)
  • special consonant ř

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