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| | Czech Language Encyclopedia Article @ Befell.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The third major dialect - Teshen Silesian - is spoken in Silesia, centered around the city Ostrava. |
 | | This dialect, too, is grammatically sound and closer to Standard Czech, but in this dialect people speak very quickly, and the long vowels become the same as their short counterparts. |
 | | Václav Machek in his "Etymologický slovník jazyka českého", 1997, ISBN 80-7106-242-1, p.8, who speaks about a "Moravian-Slovak" dialect from the region of Moravian "Slovácko") to be actually dialects of the Slovak language, which has its roots in the Moravian empire when Slovaks and Moravians were one nation (without Czechs) with one language. |
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