Czech is a member of the Western Slavonic family. Although it shares many similarities with Latin, it is regarded as being closely related to the Baltic languages because of their declension patterns (Mann, p. 19, 1977). The most recent ancestor of Old Czech is what is referred as Old Church Slavonic..
How old is Czech history?
The present-day Czech Republic was first populated by Celts in the 4th century B.C. The Celtic Boii tribe gave the country its Latin name = Boiohaemum (Bohemia). The Celtics were later replaced with the Germanic tribe (around 100 A.D.) and the Slavic peoples (6th century)..
Czech and Russian are both Slavic languages which means that they both originated from a common ancestor language, which linguists have named the “Proto-Slavic language”. As a result, there are many similar vocabulary words between Czech and Russian.
Ethnology. The Czech ethnic group is part of the West Slavic subgroup of the larger Slavic ethno-linguistical group. The West Slavs have their origin in early Slavic tribes which settled in Central Europe after East Germanic tribes had left this area during the migration period.
Historically known in English as Bohemia, the area was known as Czechia as early as the 1990s, when still part of Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic emerged after a peaceful split from Slovakia in 1992. So, better get used to reading and hearing about Czechia
Czech is distinguished from other West Slavic languages by a more-restricted distinction between "hard" and "soft" consonants (see Phonology below). History History of the Czech languageCzech orthographyCzech phonologyOfficial language in: Czech Republic; European Union Language family: Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavic > West Slavic > Czech–Slovak > Czech Recognised minority language in: Austria; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Native speakers: 10.7 million (2015)
Czech language
It is spoken in the historical regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and southwestern Silesia in the Czech Republic, where it is the official language. Czech is written in the Roman (Latin) alphabet. The oldest records in the language are Czech glosses appearing in Latin and German texts of the 12th century.
Early West Slavic
Among the innovations in common West Slavic is the palatalization of velar ch > š (vьšь 'all')
Old Czech
The earliest written records of Czech date to the 12th to 13th century, in the form of personal names, glosses and short notes
Middle Czech
The period of the mature literary language from the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century. The orthography in written texts is not still unified
Early Modern Czech
The period from the 1780s to the 1840s. The abolition of serfdom in 1781 (by Joseph II) caused migration of country inhabitants to towns
Modern Czech
Literary Czech has not been an exclusive matter of the intellectual classes since the 1840s
Who was the first president of the Czech Republic?
Václav Havel was elected the first president of the Czech Republic
In the following years, the Czech Republic joined the OECD (1994), the NATO (1999) and the EU (2004)
Today, the Czech Republic is a pluralist multi-party parliamentary democracy, with the President as head of state and Prime Minister as head of government
×End of the 1st millenniumThe Czech language developed from common West Slavic at the end of the 1st millennium. It started to be used in literature and official communication in the 14th century. The Bible was translated to Czech around this time. The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period. The modern written standard of Czech became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival in the later 18th to mid-19th century. The first written Slav language in this part of Europe was Old Church Slavonic, brought in the 9th century by the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius.,The Czech language developed from common West Slavic at the end of the 1st millennium. It was only in the 14th century when the language started to be used in literature and official communication. The king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV had the Bible translated to Czech around this time.The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardization of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerged in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival.It is hard to say precisely how old the Czech language is, but it is known that Slavs first settled this part of Europe around the sixth century, and the first written Slav language here was Old Church Slavonic, brough in the 9th century by the two Byzantine missionaries, Cyril and Methodius.
Czech language history
History of the Jews in Czechia
The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, historically the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, including the modern Czech Republic, goes back many centuries. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10th century. Jewish communities flourished here specifically in the 16th and 17th centuries, and again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local Jews were mostly murdered in the Holocaust, or exiled at various points. As of 2021, there were only about 2,300 Jews estimated to be living in the Czech Republic.
