Czech language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/czech-language

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Where is Czech language?Czech Republic, Central Europe
2. What language do people speak in Czech language?Czech Republic
3. What is the population speaking czech?Over 12 million people (including second language speakers)
4. What is the unique phoneme?The 'ř' sound (raised alveolar trill)
5. How many people speak Czech?Over 12 million people speak Czech, including many who learn it as a second language.
6. Why is Czech sometimes called Bohemian?Historically, Czech was also called Bohemian because it comes from the region of Bohemia.

Endonym: The name of a place or language used by the people who live there or speak it.
Mutual Intelligibility: The ability of speakers of different, but related, languages to understand each other.
Fusional Language: A language where grammatical information is conveyed by changing word endings.
Morphology: The study of the structure of words and how they are formed.