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Language code: ces

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ces

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The table below provides technical details for the Czech language, designated by the ces code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ces (Terminology)

Standard

ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3

Name

Official

Czech

Native

Čeština

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
BohemianMoravianSilesian
Related languages
SlovakPolishUpper SorbianLower Sorbian
Key facts
The letter Ř/ř represents a fricative trill unique to CzechThe language allows exceptionally dense consonant clusters, e.g., the word “čtvrthrst”Word order is highly flexible because grammatical relations are marked by seven casesResearch by the Prague Linguistic Circle on Czech helped found modern structural linguisticsThe earliest continuous Czech prose texts date back to the 13th century
Sample phrase

Ahoj, jak se máš?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-2, Windows 1250, CP 852, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Czech language, identified by the code ces, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Czech language: ces for terminology purposes and cze for bibliographic uses.

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