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Czech Translation - Montreal

Czech Translator and Interpreter Services

The Czech language belongs to the western group Slavonic languages and, is similar to Slovak but with a lesser extent to Polish and Serbian. The use of Czech language is limited to Slovakia and The Czech Republic where it is the national language.  It is spoken by about 12 million people in the Czech Republic alone. Czech is also used by another 2 million people who are native Czech immigrants living overseas including Canada. It is one of the 23 official languages of the European Union.

The grammar has a close resemblance with Slovak because of Czech's tie to Slovak. And both the languages are mutually spoken by adults  from each country.  The manner of communications are both written and verbal. Native English Canadian speakers may have a difficult time learning Czech.  The verbs of motion, verbal aspects, syntax are among the challenges when translating and interpreting in Czech. The language has 10 cases, 3 genders and 3 numbers which include singular, dual and plural.  These all make a Czech translation extremely difficult. Thus, it is important that you trust your documents to highly professional Czech translators only.

Further challenging any translator or interpreter is the phonology of Czech.  It has long consonant clusters forming a single syllable. A Czech language translation has to take into account that the language has 10 vowels, 5 tense and 5 lax and three dipthongs. Syllabic consonants l and r often act as the syllabic nuclei. So many word only include syllabic consonants l or r instead of vowels. Many words are borrowed from German yet the languages are unintelligible. Many English words are also making their way into Czech with the advent of the internet and the exposure to English Media.

Your Czech translation company needs to know what they are doing because there are two popular dialects of the language are Standard or written Czech which is primarily used in correspondence ad is taught in Schools and Common Czech. However, written or Standard Czech is used more commonly in the eastern province or Moravia while the in western province of Bohemia Common Czech is the Lingua Franca. There are grammatical and pronunciation differences in the two interdialects. Standard Czech finds its roots in the Prague Dialect. There are many other local interdialects of the language being used in various parts of the country.  A professional Czech translator knows these differences and challenges and will help you deliver an accurate Czech translation.