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date: 14 December 2024

Czech Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Dobrava MoldanováDobrava Moldanová

Czech is the westernmost of the Slavic languages, spoken mainly in Bohemia and Moravia. Even though there are only about 13.5 million Czech speakers, there are numerous dialect variations, which may affect the form of a surname. Czech forms part of the Western Slavic dialect continuum, stretching from eastern Poland to the German borders. It is closely related to Slovak, less closely related to Polish, and even more distantly related to the Eastern Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Russian) and South Slavic (Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.). The Czech language is very highly inflected, so that in its native environment the form of a surname changes according to the context in which it is used. Moreover, hypocoristics (pet forms) are very widely used, with the result that there are far more derivatives of a basic given name (e.g. Latin ... ...

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