Moravian dialects
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Moravian dialects are the varieties of Czech spoken in Moravia, a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic. There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of th
An inscription on the façade of Prostějov castle showing a poem written in Hanakian dialect
A mural at Uherské Hradiště railway station with two lines of poetry written in an Eastern Moravian dialect
A page from a popular encyclopedia describing the ethnic composition of Moravia in 1878, along with the Moravian dialects. This writing identifies the Wallachian dialect as a transitional dialect between Czech and Slovak, while the inhabitants of Moravian Slovakia are described as Slovaks.
Cieszyn Silesian dialect
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The Cieszyn Silesian dialect or Teschen Silesian dialect is one of the Silesian dialects. It has its roots mainly in Old Polish and also has strong influences from Czech and German and, to a lesser ex
Moravian dialects
…as in Polish. Silesian dialects also contain many German loanwords unfamiliar to other Czech dialects. The Lachian dialects are closely related to the Cieszyn Silesian dialect, spoken in the area around Karviná, Český Těšín and Třinec as well as on the Polish side of the border. Bohemian-Moravian dialects, or South-eastern…
Rest in peace grave inscription in Cieszyn Silesian dialect.
Bilingual sign written in Cieszyn Silesian and Czech at Gorolski Święto.