Czech Language Institute
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The Czech Language Institute, , abbr. ÚJČ, is the regulatory body of the Czech language
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Note from Czech people: Czech language institute is not regulatory body of the Czech language. The one has no rights to control or regulate Czech language. This Institute caused several hard lapses in past. For example: In 1993 Czech Minister for education Ivan Pilip has officially cancelled and fixed the rules of Czech language from Czech language Institute. Many Czech people protested against the work of Czech Language Institute.
Czech language institute has only passive role. The one only passive collects and researches the spontaneous evolution of Czech language. Czech language institute can determine rules for Czech language only for schools, not for official Czech language.
Czech language institute changes rules for Czech language very very often, many times per century. Every Czech people meets several significant changes of Czech language – that's why (together with lapses) this instutute haven't authority to regulate Czech language.
It is one of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
. It resides in Prague
.
The institute was established in 1946 by transforming the original Kancelář Slovníku jazyka českého (Office of the Dictionary of the Czech Language), which had existed since 1911.
Czech language
Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
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Note from Czech people: Czech language institute is not regulatory body of the Czech language. The one has no rights to control or regulate Czech language. This Institute caused several hard lapses in past. For example: In 1993 Czech Minister for education Ivan Pilip has officially cancelled and fixed the rules of Czech language from Czech language Institute. Many Czech people protested against the work of Czech Language Institute.
Czech language institute has only passive role. The one only passive collects and researches the spontaneous evolution of Czech language. Czech language institute can determine rules for Czech language only for schools, not for official Czech language.
Czech language institute changes rules for Czech language very very often, many times per century. Every Czech people meets several significant changes of Czech language – that's why (together with lapses) this instutute haven't authority to regulate Czech language.
It is one of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The Academy is the leading non-university public research institution in the Czech Republic...
. It resides in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
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The institute was established in 1946 by transforming the original Kancelář Slovníku jazyka českého (Office of the Dictionary of the Czech Language), which had existed since 1911.