Czech language

West Slavic language

The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (, , , , ). It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase ž is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. In addition, ž is used as the romanisation of Cyrillic ж in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration.

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Czech and Slovak tongue-twister

REDIRECT Ring (diacritic)

subgroup within the West Slavic languages

variety of Czech spoken in Brno

political sociolinguistic concept used in Czechoslovakia in 1920–1938 for the definition of the state language of the country

Bohemisms, or Czechisms, are words and expressions borrowed or derived from the Czech language. The former term is derived from the historical name Bohemia for Czech lands.

field of humanities

organization, network

codification of Czech orthography by Jan Hus; introduced diacritics ´ and ˇ

Research institute at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

rules of writing in the Czech language