Czech language - Czech (English)

Japanese: チェコ語 - チェコご（英語表記）Czech language

Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic and is also spoken in parts of the Silesian region of Poland. It was also called Bohemian. It has about 10 million speakers. It belongs to the West Slavic group of Slavic languages along with Slovak, Polish, and Sorbian, and is particularly similar to Slovak. Its main characteristic is the fixed stress on the first syllable of words. The oldest words are found in Old Church Slavonic documents from the 11th century, and the period from then until the 14th century is called Old Czech, the 15th and 16th centuries are called Middle Czech, and the period from the 17th century onwards is called Modern Czech.

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Japanese:

チェコの公用語であり，ポーランドのシロンスク (シュレジエン) 地方の一部でも話される言語。ボヘミア語とも呼ばれた。話し手は約 1000万人。スロバキア語，ポーランド語，ソルブ語とともにスラブ語派の西スラブ語群に属し，特にスロバキア語とは非常によく似ている。単語の第1音節に固定強勢があるのが大きな特徴。 11世紀に古期教会スラブ語の文献中に散在する単語が最も古いもので，それ以降 14世紀までを古期チェコ語，15～16世紀を中期チェコ語，17世紀以後を近代チェコ語という。

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