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| | Czech Language |
 | | As a Slavic language Czech belongs to the eastern, or satem, division of Indo-European. |
 | | Czech has been influenced by a number of languages, especially Old Church Slavonic (introduced into the area by Constantine and Methodius in the 9th century), Latin (once the Pan-European language of learning), and German (the language of numerous colonists, as well as the main language of the Habsburg empire). |
 | | The language has been recorded, described, and analyzed in a number of grammars (the first grammar dating from 1533) and dictionaries (with the first dictionaries, written in verse, originating in the 2nd half of the 14th century). |
| scic.cec.eu.int /Main/enlargement/lan_pres/czech_01.htm (963 words) |
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