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Czech (Bohemian)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Slavic

Lat/lon: 50.0, 14.5

ISO code: ces

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, bc, ɟk, gʔ
trillr, r̝
fricativef, vs, zʃ, ʒxɦ
affricatetstʃ, dʒ
nasalmnɲ
approximantj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeu
near-closeɪ
close-mido
open-midɛ
open

Short half-long series

front
close

Long series

frontcentralback
close
close-mid
open-midɛː
openäː

Diphthongs

/ou̯/, /äu̯/, /ɛu̯/

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)

Source: Šárka Šimáčková; Václav Jonáš Podlipský; Kateřina Chládková. 2012. Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 42/2

Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)