<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> regions where Czech is the language of the majority regions where Czech is the language of a significant minority </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> This article contains IPA phonetic symbols . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters . For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help: IPA . </Td> </Tr> <P> Czech (/ ˈtʃɛk /; čeština Czech pronunciation: (ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna)), historically also Bohemian (/ boʊˈhiːmiən, bə - /; lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech--Slovak group, which is extensively influenced by Latin and German . Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic . Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of mutual intelligibility to a very high degree . </P> <P> The Czecho - Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardisation of Czech and Slovak within the Czech--Slovak dialect continuum emerges in the early modern period . In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival . The main vernacular, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of Prague, but is now spoken throughout most of the Czech Republic . The Moravian dialects spoken in the eastern part of the country are also classified as Czech, although some of their eastern variants are closer to Slovak . </P>

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