Regional countrymen's Czech in the background of majority foreign language

Abstract

The article deals with the definition of the term "Czech national language" and presents the synopsis of language changes which occur due to the contact of Czech with a language whose typology is either similar or different.

Keywords

• Czech as a mother-tongue
• foreign language
• second language
• national language
• inherited language
• regional countrymen ´s Czech
• language contact
• language changes
• American Czech