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Countries

Countries
Czech Republic, European Union  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

National Language
Czech Republic  
Germany  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language  
Council for German Orthography  

Interesting Facts
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
42  
22
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
32  
21
10  
7

How Many Consonants
32  
22
9  
1

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
ahoj  
hallo  

Thank You
děkuji  
Danke  

How Are You?
Jak se máš?  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
dobrou noc  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
dobrý večer  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
dobré ráno  
guten Morgen  

Please
prosím  
bitte  

Sorry
litovat  
Verzeihung  

Bye
sbohem  
Tschüs  

I Love You
Miluji tě  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
promiňte  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chod  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
4,500,000.00  
18

Dialect 2
Lach  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Moravian  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
108,000.00  
27
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
0.15 %  
99+
1.39 %  
12

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
čeština / český jazyk  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
tchèque  
allemand  

German Name
Tschechisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Czechs  
Germans  

History

Origin
9th Century  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Germanic  

Branch
Western  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Czech  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
73  
99+
9  
9

Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
cs  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ces  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
cze  
ger  

ISO 639 3
ces  
deu  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
deus  

Glottocode
czec1258  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-da  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Czech and German Language History

Comparison of Czech vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Czech and German language. History of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Czech and German Language History.

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Czech and German Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Czech and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Czech and German language. Czech word for "Hello" is ahoj or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Czech Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Czech vs German Difficulty

The Czech vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech Alphabets and German Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Czech and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.

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