Czech Baby Names

Czech is Part of the western Slavonic family of languages. Although it resembles Latin in many ways, it is closely related to the Baltic languages. The most recent ancestor of Old Czech is Old Church Slavonic. Czech uses the Roman alphabet. The Czech people have been greatly affected by long years of occupation and the political influence of the Germans, Austrians, and, most recently, the Russians. Dialectic differences can be found in this relatively small country, most notably in the two major geographical regions of Moravia (the eastern third of the country), which prides itself in correct, precise pronunciation, and Bohemia (the western part of the country), where there is often a tendency to shorten vowel sounds. With the fall of communism, there has been a tendency toward giving children names that are variants of western European or American names.