Talk:History of the Czech language

message: I would change the use of "literal" to "literary".  "Literal" in English means, "in accordance with the exact meaning of words". For example, "he hit the roof" is a figurative expression meaning he was angry; he did not literally "hit the roof". If you mean the written language, as opposed to colloquial language, you mean "literary".  In English dictionaries this difference is noted thusly: "lit." and "col.".  Česky literarní je "literary" v Angličtině.  Sladek 15:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "literal" vs. "literary" 

message: I corrected the spelling of Renaissance, but in English, we commonly refer to this period as The National Revival, as it revived the Czech language and national identity. Sladek 15:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for corrections of my English. My dictionary offers "revival", "renascence", "rebirth", "regeneration" or "renaissance" for "obrození". It is difficult for me to choose the most suitable equivavalent. But I think that "The National Revival" would be better than "The National Renaissance" --Pajast 13:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The National "Renaissance" 

message: In this article, I used a linguistic trascription which is usually used by Czech linguists. Since it could be uncomprehensible for non-Czech speaker, this is my attempt to translate it into the IPA characters:
Czech                	IPA
š                    	
ž                    	
c                    	
č                    	
ř                    	
ď                    	
ť                    	
ň                    	
y                    	
ch                   	
ä, a̋                	
ě, ie                	
' (apostrophe)e.g. s'	(palatization)
ę, ǫ                 	(nasalized vowels)
´ (acute)e.g. á, ĺ   	(length)
I found no sources for this. It is only my idea. Therefore, I place the table here. Your opinion is welcome. --Pajast 15:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transcription 

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message: I am curious if Czech long vowels correspond to vowel length distinctions in Proto-Slavic or other modern Slavic languages, or if they arose some other way. I remember reading a Czech grammar that said the origin was unknown. It was an old book, so perhaps there are theories today. The current version of the article doesn't discuss this topic. — Eru·tuon 00:35, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: See here.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 21:43, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

text: The link above is broken. To my knowledge, the length is not old, but arose whenever the following syllable contained a yer that eventually disappeared, as a kind of compensatory lengthening – or maybe the length already arose allophonically before the fall of the yers (Havlík's law suggests that even yers themselves were lengthened, originally allophonically, before unlengthened yers), thus already in the Common Slavic (or Common West Slavic) period. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:24, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of vowel length 

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