page_title: Moravian dialects
section_title: Eastern Moravian
hierarchical_section_title: Moravian dialects / Dialects / Eastern Moravian
caption_attribution_description: English: A mural at Uherské Hradiště train station written in an East Moravian dialect Čeština: Nástěnná malba v železniční stanici Uherské Hradiště psaná ve východomoravském nářečí Slovenčina: Nástenná maľba v železničnej stanici Uherské Hradiště písaná vo východomoravském nárečí
context_page_description: Moravian dialects are the varieties of Czech spoken in Moravia, a historical region in the southeast of the Czech Republic. There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of the Czech Republic. The main four groups of dialects are the Bohemian-Moravian group, the Central Moravian group, the Eastern Moravian group and the Lach group. While the forms are generally viewed as regional variants of Czech, some Moravians claim them to be one separate Moravian language.
  Southeastern Moravian dialects form a dialect continuum with the closely related Slovak language, and are thus sometimes viewed as dialects of Slovak rather than Czech.
  Until the 19th century, the language used in Slavic-speaking areas of Moravia was referred to as “Moravian” or as “Czech”. When regular censuses started in Austria-Hungary in 1880, the choice of main-communication languages in the forms prescribed in Cisleithania did not include Czech language but included the single item Bohemian–Moravian–Slovak. Respondents who chose Bohemian–Moravian–Slovak as their main communicating language were counted in the Austrian censuses as Czechs.
context_section_description: Eastern Moravian dialects are transitional dialects between Czech and Slovak. They are spoken in the strip of land extending from Břeclav to Hodonín, Kyjov, Uherské Hradiště, Zlín and Vsetín. The Eastern group contains two dialects of specific interest, the Moravian Wallachian dialect (Czech: valašské nářečí, valašština) and the Moravian-Slovak dialect (Czech: slovácké nářečí, moravská slovenština). Features of Eastern Moravian dialects include:
  The distinction between soft l and hard ł (pronounced [w]) is usually retained (hlava, dělat = hłava, děłat). By extension, the final -l in past tense verbs is often rendered -u.
  aj sometimes retained instead of ej (vejce = vajco, dej = daj).
  In contrast to Common Czech, -ý- always prevails over -ej- (dobrý, strýc and never dobrej, strejc).
  Infinitives end in -ť rather than -t, as in Slovak (být = býť)
  The Moravian-Slovak dialect shares several other features with Slovak, including the use of the long ĺ and ŕ (hloubka = hĺbka, hrnout = ohŕňat).
  Wallachian dialects preserve the present transgressive, which is usually considered archaic in standard Czech aside from in a few arbitrary phrases.
caption: A mural at Uherské Hradiště railway station with two lines of poetry written in an Eastern Moravian dialect
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