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1215: 807: 40: 1227: 1140:. The changes in the phonology and the morphology of the literary language ended in the previous period. Only the spoken language continued its development in the country. As a consequence of strong isolation, the differences between dialects were deepened. Especially, the Moravian and Silesian dialects developed divergently from Common Czech. 268:
The spirantisation of Slavic /g/ to /h/ is an areal feature shared by Ukrainian (and some southern Russian dialects), Belarusian, Slovak, Czech, Sorbian (but not Polish) and minority of Slovene dialects. This innovation appears to have travelled from east to west, and is sometimes attributed to
1328:'grammar school'). Social changes after World War II (1945) led to gradual diminishing of differences between dialects. Since the second half of the 20th century, Common Czech elements have also been spreading to regions previously unaffected, as a consequence of the media's influence. 1186:) caused migration of country inhabitants to towns. It enabled the implementation of the ideas of the Czech national awakeners for the renewal of the Czech language. However, the people's language and literary genres of the previous period were strange to the 1390:в славянском языке // Проблемы индоевропейского языкознания. М., 1964, 115—121. Эдельман Д. И. К происхождению ирано-славянских диахронических паралелей // Славянская языковая и этноязыковая системы в контакте с неславянским окружением. М., 2002, 76—77. 937:
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, digraphs are used predominantly in various forms. After the invention of book-printing, the so-called
265:), and vice versa. The consonants were divided into hard (b, p, v, m, t, d, r, l, n, c, z, s, k, g, ch) and soft – palatal or palatalized (t’, d’, ř, l’, n’, c’, s’, z’, č, š, ž, j, ň). This division was cardinal for the later development. 1315:
During the 20th century, elements of the spoken language (of Common Czech especially) penetrated literary Czech. The orthography of foreign words was changed to reflect their German pronunciation, especially writing
1128:, who also reigned as king of Bohemia, the use of Czech was discouraged due to its association with Protestantism, and relegated to a spoken peasant tongue. However, puppeteers continued to use Czech for public 1135:
Meanwhile, prestigious literary styles were cultivated by Czech expatriates abroad. The zenith and, simultaneously, the end of the florescence of prestigious literary styles are represented by the works of
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are interchangeable. The vowel length is not usually denoted, doubled letters are used rarely. Obligatory regulations did not exist. This is why the system was not always applied precisely. After 1340, the
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Literary Czech has not been an exclusive matter of the intellectual classes since the 1840s. Journalism was developing and artistic works got closer to the spoken language, especially in syntax. In 1902,
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intelligentsia. The literary language of the end of the 16th century and of Komenský’s work became the starting point for the new codification of literary Czech. Of the various attempts at codification,
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The artistic literature often resorted to archaisms and did not respect the natural development of the spoken language. This was due to attempts to reach the prestige literal styles.
1124:. The function of the literary language was limited; it left the scientific field first, the discerning literature later, and the administration finally. Under the rule of 1120:
The period from the second half of the 17th century to the second third of the 18th century was marked by confiscations and emigration of the Czech intelligentsia after the
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In the 14th century, Czech began to penetrate various literary styles. Official documents in Czech exist at the end of the century. The digraph orthography is applied. The
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took place later, thus the frequency of occurrence of palatalized consonants was lowered, but it strengthened the palatalization contrast at the same time. The change of
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Within West Slavic, Czech and Slovak separated from Polish around the 10th to 12th centuries. Some other changes took place during roughly the 10th century:
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is cancelled. The suggestion is a work of an individual person, therefore this graphic system was accepted slowly, the digraph orthography was still in use.
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published the first Rules of Czech Orthography, which also contained an overview of the morphology. These rules still preferred older forms in doublets.
1211:(1830–1835) contributed to the renewal of Czech vocabulary. Thanks to the enthusiasm of Czech scientists, Czech scientific terminology was created. 950:, became the pattern of the literary Czech language. The orthography was predominantly diacritic; the dot in soft consonants was replaced by the 1214: 806: 1514: 710:). The voicedness became the main contrastive feature of consonants after the disappearance of palatalization. The original pronunciation of 838:. For recording of soft consonants, digraphs are replaced by a dot above letters. The acute is used to denote the vowel length. The digraph 790:
are applied. As a consequence of this, aorist and imperfect start disappearing little by little and are replaced by the perfect (now called
61: 2081: 2143: 1951: 1755: 1719: 630:, initiated in the 13th century, was finished. Palatalized (softened) consonants either merged with their hard counterparts or became 273:. It is approximately dated to the 12th century in Slovak, the 12th to 13th century in Czech and the 14th century in Upper Sorbian. 1862: 1745: 1606: 1503: 1489: 1478: 83: 2065: 2033: 1852: 1827: 1693: 1673: 1535: 1219: 1125: 416:
Large changes take place in Czech phonology in the 12th and 13th centuries. Front and back variants of vowels are removed, e.g.
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The earliest written records of Czech date to the 12th to 13th century, in the form of personal names, glosses and short notes.
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The first ideas of the National Revival were in so-called defences of the Czech language. The most likely first such work is
1984: 1979: 1642: 1637: 1611: 1586: 1183: 1038:'strange'). The complicated syntax, influenced by Latin texts, required some improvement of the punctuation. However, the 121: 782:'I will have called'). The contrastive feature of imperfectiveness was also stabilized. The perfectivization function of 2015: 1528: 1073:
still remained in graphics). In initial positions, it was used in lesser prestige or specialized styles only. Written
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Step by step, the orthography was liberated from the relics of the Brethren orthography. According to the etymology,
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Pavel dal jest Ploškovcích zeḿu. Vlach dal jest Dolás zeḿu i sv́atému Ščepánu se dvěma dušníkoma Bogučeja a Sedlatu.
1760: 242:). The contrast of the vowel quantity (length) was also strengthened. The depalatalization of consonants preceding 28: 873:(the widespread Bohemian interdialect). There are also some other changes in this period: the diphthongization of 916:
The contrast of animateness in masculine inflection is not still fully set, as it is not yet applied to animals (
65: 1667: 1121: 924:'I see a dog'). Aorist and imperfect have disappeared from literary styles before the end of the 15th century. 827: 501: 2138: 1473:
Karlík P., Nekula M., Pleskalová J. (ed.). Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Nakl. Lidové noviny. Praha 2002.
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is not fixed yet; the present tense is often used instead. The contrast of perfective and imperfective
2102: 1601: 1576: 1187: 499: 491: 438:'nice'). In the morphology, these changes deepened the differences between hard and soft noun types ( 324: 1735: 1250:. Antiqua was introduced instead of fractura in printing, and it led to the removal of the digraph 1047: 1039: 261:
The vowels were front (ä, e, i, ě) and back (a, o, u), and the front ones had their back variants (
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shows, and popular legend has it that this preserved the Czech language from extinction at home.
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is not fully developed yet, there are also biaspectual and no-aspectual verbs. The Proto-Slavic
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became used in the contemporary way. Vowel length was denoted by the acute accent, except for
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Printed documents used the same orthography as in the previous period. Only the two kinds of
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was established, but it occurred in lesser prestige style text only. The diphthongization of
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occurs as a punctuation mark for better and clear organization of excessive and complicated
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In morphology, the differentiation of animate and inanimate masculines was completed (
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Lamprecht A., Šlosar D., Bauer J. Historická mluvnice češtiny. SPN Praha 1986, 423 s.
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The oldest known complete Czech sentence is a note on the foundation charter of the
870: 507: 308: 200: 881:, the pronunciation was probably different than today), the monophthongization of 1309: 604: 312: 1203:(both real and fictitious) had been occurring by that time. The publication of 642:
later at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. In this context, the phoneme
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The period from the 1780s to the 1840s. The abolition of serfdom in 1781 (by
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mark is sometimes used in various shapes. Its function is to denote pauses.
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Wlah dalgeſt dolaſ zemu iſuiatemu ſcepanu ſeduema duſnicoma bogucea aſedlatu
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In morphology, the future tense of imperfective verbs was fixed. The type
634:(ď, ť, ň). The depalatalization did not temporarily concern hard and soft 1137: 819: 17: 401:
begins to appear, although not systematically. Combinations of letters (
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without any diacritics, resulting in ambiguities, such as in the letter
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The dual is also applied in verb conjugations. The past is expressed by
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are used. The first grammars are published for typographers' purposes.
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was mostly written in the final positions in words only, the digraph
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As a consequence of the loss of palatalization, the pronunciation of
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was used according to pauses in pronunciation, not the syntax. The
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principle (masculine, feminine and neuter) There were also three
662:'foam') before labial consonants in the pronunciation. The long 1524: 1161:
Dissertatio apologetica pro lingua Slavonica praecipue Bohemica
2117: 156: 33: 187: 1089:'egg') took place, but it was not applied in heterosyllabic 319:
was used after verbs of motion, but it was replaced by the
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Rejzek J. Český etymologický slovník. Leda, Voznice 2001.
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Around 1406, a reform of the orthography was suggested in
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starts to be pronounced as . The change of tautosyllabic
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developed at the close of the 1st millennium from common
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Chrestomatie k vývoji českého jazyka (13. – 18. století)
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merged. This change resulted in the diphthongization of
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are preserved. The interchangeability of the graphemes
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The period of the 15th century from the beginning of
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contrast of palatalized (softened) and unpalatalized
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Book of Ezekiel 36:26 from the 1417 Bible of Olomouc
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Until the early 20th century, it was known as 986:for technical reasons; later it was denoted as 831:, a work attributed to Jan Hus – the so-called 764:'I will call' became preferred to other types ( 350:chapter at the beginning of the 13th century: 1195:’s grammar was ultimately generally accepted. 1536: 8: 405:) are used for recording Czech sounds, e.g. 230:, and resulted in alterations of epenthetic 1275: 1159: 777: 771: 765: 759: 746: 741:has been added to all words beginning with 725: 719: 429: 258:took place at the end of the 12th century. 1566: 1543: 1529: 1521: 548:š; w = v; v = u; zz = s; z = z; ie, ye = ě 626:'(to) horses') took place. The so-called 84:Learn how and when to remove this message 1225: 966:was written in the middle. The grapheme 47:This article includes a list of general 1379: 901:in the form of a ring above the letter 786:and the imperfectivization function of 323:. However, the contemporary infinitive 189:dobriji > dobr’í, dobroje > dobré 1401:The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic 155:the disappearance and vocalization of 1147:are not differentiated any more. The 942:stabilized in printed documents. The 526:disappeared later, but the change of 7: 1199:attempts to cleanse the language of 1061:In the pronunciation, the change of 702:was enforced (with the exception of 686:'sand'). At the same time, the long 480:Chlmec > Chlumec, dĺgý > dlúhý 1386:Абаев В. И. О происхождении фонемы 1324:and marking the vowel length (e.g. 470:'to plant out'). The hard syllabic 371:The earliest texts were written in 1280:'hers'). In the 1840s, the double 1254:and its replacement by the letter 53:it lacks sufficient corresponding 25: 905:, which resulted in the grapheme 700:regressive assimilation of voice 628:main historical depalatalization 377:, which used the letters of the 116:Among the innovations in common 38: 1453:"Why Czechs don't speak German" 1434:"Why Czechs don't speak German" 1126:Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II 330:formally continues the supine. 994:. Pronounced was recorded as 355:Pauel dal geſt ploſcoucih zemu 1: 638:, which merged to one middle 482:'long'), as opposite to soft 288:: singular, dual and plural. 1085:'give (2. sg. imperative)', 603:remain interchangeable. The 166:bъzъ > bez, bъza > bza 698:'salt'). In pronunciation, 569:č; g = j; rs, rz = ř; s = s 2160: 1175: 1010:was preserved, the simple 897:was sometimes recorded as 510:of palatalized alveolars ( 462:'soul') as well as verbs ( 179:the contraction of groups 29:History of the Czech lands 26: 2144:Slavic language histories 1292:replaced the traditional 1069:was also stabilized (but 1030:was always written after 1014:denoted the word-initial 561:later digraph orthography 540:older digraph orthography 1417:Porák, Jaroslav (1979). 1326:gymnasium > gymnázium 1122:Battle of White Mountain 1108:rather than the earlier 974:developed from original 828:De orthographia bohemica 1209:Czech-German Dictionary 646:disappeared. The short 512:t’ > c’, d’ > dz’ 188: 68:more precise citations. 1276: 1231: 1223: 1178:Czech National Revival 1160: 811: 778: 776:'I have to call', and 772: 766: 760: 747: 726: 720: 654:or was dissociated to 577:š; w = v; v = u; z = z 430: 1338:Orthographia bohemica 1229: 1217: 948:Unity of the Brethren 809: 690:was diphthongized to 518:) occurred. However, 374:primitive orthography 1451:Janeksela, Jacklyn. 1432:Janeksela, Jacklyn. 1242:came to be written, 940:Brethren orthography 446:'ploughman (gen.)'; 1101:'egg (gen. pl.)'). 399:digraph orthography 363:(in transcription: 286:grammatical numbers 1232: 1224: 1218:Wayside shrine in 1172:Early Modern Czech 1097:'they will give', 954:which was used in 812: 770:'I want to call', 650:either changed to 530:became permanent. 528:r’ > rs’ > ř 442:'farmer (gen.)' ↔ 2126: 2125: 1841: 1840: 1556:world's languages 1515:978-80-7294-591-7 1353:Czech orthography 1153:complex sentences 1138:Jan Amos Komenský 990:, and finally as 933:Humanistic period 842:and the grapheme 624:koňóm > koniem 583:, syllable-final 436:p’äkný > pěkný 431:v’a̋ce > viece 385:representing the 112:Early West Slavic 94: 93: 86: 16:(Redirected from 2151: 2016:Standard Chinese 1567: 1545: 1538: 1531: 1522: 1461: 1460: 1448: 1442: 1441: 1429: 1423: 1422: 1414: 1408: 1399:Pronk-Tiethoff, 1397: 1391: 1384: 1368:Czech word order 1348:Czech declension 1284:was replaced by 1279: 1246:was replaced by 1163: 1087:vajce > vejce 1056:exclamation mark 1018:. The diphthong 956:č, ď, ň, ř, ť, ž 944:Bible of Kralice 920:'I see a lord'; 893:. The diphthong 781: 775: 769: 763: 750: 729: 723: 595:. The graphemes 550:; the graphemes 505: 497: 486:. 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