The language from the land of beer

Welcome! – Or as they say in Czech: Srdečnĕ vítáme!
Czech (Český) is spoken by about 10 million native speakers. The Czech language belongs to the Indo-Germanic language family, or more precisely to its West Slavic branch, which also includes Slovak and Polish. Since 2004, Czech has been one of the current 24 official languages of the EU.

In Czech, the spoken language sometimes differs greatly from the standardised written language. In general, the Czech language can be divided into four regionally spread dialect groups: the Czech, Central Moravian and East Moravian dialect groups as well as the Silesian dialects.

The Czech alphabet consists of 42 characters. In addition to the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, there are another 15 letters with diacritical signs: Á á, Č č, Ď ď, É é, Ě ě, Í í, Ň ň, Ó ó, Ř ř, Š š, Ť ť, Ú ú, Ú ú, Ý ý, Ž ž.
Other languages with diacritical marks include: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian and Turkish.

Examples of diacritical signs:

À à Grave: above the letter, slash from top left to bottom right

Á á Acute: above the letter, slash from bottom left to top right

Ă ă Breve: above the letter, u-shaped curved line

Ā ā Macron: above the letter, horizontal line

Å å Krouzek: centred above the letter, not filled in circle

àã Tilde: above the letter, first upward and then downward curved wavy line

Ą ą Ogonek: at the bottom right of the letter, hook curved to the right

 â Circumflex: above the letter, chevron arrow pointing upwards

Č č Hatcheck: above the letter, chevron arrow pointing downwards

Ç ç Cedilla: centred under the letter, hook curved to the left

Đ đ Horizontal line: across the letter, horizontal line at half height

Ł ł Slash: diagonally through the letter, slash from bottom left to top right