Czech in Czechia

Speakers

9,242,634

Type

Location

Czech in Czechia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Czech in Czechia

Size

9,242,634

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.korpus.cz/
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/data

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
http://ujc.dialogy.cz/

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://wiki.korpus.cz/doku.php/cnk:struktura#korpusy_mluvene
http://ujc.dialogy.cz/

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://ujc.avcr.cz/elektronicke-slovniky-a-zdroje/

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Size / Number of users

Number of users

9242634
Source
https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/matersky-jazyk
Year
2021
Comments

Total number of declared mother tongue users of Czech or Moravian in overall population. Respondents could list one or two mother tongues. No statistics are gathered for non-native speakers.

Users within total population

87.80000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

88
Source
https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/matersky-jazyk
Year
2021
Comments
Percentage of declared mother tongue users of Czech or Moravian in overall population. Respondents could list one or two mother tongues. No statistics are gathered for non-native speakers.

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
88
Source
https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/matersky-jazyk
Year
2021
Comments
Percentage of declared mother tongue users of Czech or Moravian in overall population. Respondents could list one or two mother tongues. No statistics are gathered for non-native speakers.

Age distribution of users

1,691,760
16
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vekova-struktura

Year
2021
Comments

Numbers from total population of Czechia

Age distribution of users

6,684,359
64
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vekova-struktura

Year
2021
Comments

Numbers from total population of Czechia

Age distribution of users

2,148,048
20
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vekova-struktura

Year
2021
Comments

Numbers from total population of Czechia

Generational use

0
1
8,996,475
All generations
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/matersky-jazyk

Year
2021
Comments

Declared mother tongue users of Czech in overall population. Respondents could list one or two mother tongues. No statistics are gathered for non-native speakers.

Educational attainment

No education
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vzdelani

Year
2021
Comments

Data for entire population of Czechia - 56,110 people.

1,107,860
Primary education
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vzdelani

Year
2021
Comments

Data for whole population of Czechia

2,736,983
Lower secondary education
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vzdelani

Year
2021
Comments

Data for whole population of Czechia

2,729,091
Higher secondary education
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vzdelani

Year
2021
Comments

Data for whole population of Czechia

1,690,995
Tertiary education
Source

https://www.czso.cz/csu/scitani2021/vzdelani

Year
2021
Comments

Data for whole population of Czechia

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language

5. Use

Completion