Czech Language
Czech (; Czech čeština [ˈtʃɛʃcɪna]), historically also Bohemian (; lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group. Spoken by over 13 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of mutual intelligibility to a very high degree, as well as Polish. Like other Slavic languages, Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German.The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, …
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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 24 August 2018 English
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence …
Czech culture and history and practise their Czech language skills. With the rise of public education … schools. Community institutions that taught the Czech language and culture to successive generations decreased …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 20 September 2011 English
On the last day of the Second World War, Frank and Russ fought each other. In the days after, they became friends. This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten …
asking those attempting to pass to use the Czech language, since most Germans could not pronounce certain …
SCBD: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity · 22 September 2010 English
Based on proposed nominations prepared by the CNAs, the Council made a selection and appointed the members of the Committee for the Contained Use of GMOs consisting of 11 scientists …
Risks – GMOs) offers information in national – Czech language. 5. Capacity building represents an important …
Institute for Work & Health · 30 January 2009 English
Injuries to the upper extremity are common among workers, accounting for about 30 per cent of lost-time claims in Ontario in 2006. The upper extremity includes the neck, shoulder, upper …
questions in Table 4. One non-English study (Czech language) was not reviewed for methodological quality …
PPQ: The Porcupine's Quill · 2008 English
Frank Newfeld, `type-cast` (as it were) as a book designer-cum-illustrator, as well as a designer of printed matter for art galleries, gives us a fascinating memoir both from the standpoint …
so I left a mes- sage in my version of the Czech language to say that I would be arriv- ing that evening …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 31 October 2007 English
Jan Rubes has been a leading performer and director on stage, film, and TV, and in concert, opera, musical comedy, and drama. With an operatic career already established, the Czechoslovakia …
three opera houses were functioning in the Czech language. The National Theatre was a favoured site …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2002 English
The Carpatho-Rusyns are an East Central European people, numbering approximately 1.2 million, who live within the borders of four states: Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, and Poland. The first work on the …
Ukrainian-language bi-weekly *Zemlia i volia (1934-38), the Czech-language *Podkarpatske hlasy (1925-38), the journals …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2001 English
Hanna Fischl, a Czech of Jewish descent, was a twenty-four-year-old teacher in a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia when Hitler's shadow loomed over Europe in 1938. No longer able to associate …
to be my adviser again. I am to teach mostly Czech language in five different grades, ranging from the …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2000 English
Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on …
the Sudeten region. I turned to studying the Czech language, taking regular con- versation with Gustav …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 1999 English
This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch provides a lucid narrative on the nature of semiotics and linguistics, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application.
in linguistic data from the history of the Czech language. In the fourteenth-century Litomysl di- alect …
