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There's always some thing even more odd than the HL
thing.
No HL -- No Vowels
The Czech Language
Can I buy a vowel?
There are three main Language Families in Europe:
Romantic, Germanic and Slavic. French, Spanish, Italian
and Portuguese are members of the Romantic language
family, with Latin as their mother. Czech belongs to the
Slavic language family. The languages of Slovakia,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and
Serbia are also in the Slavic family. Their mother is known
as Old Slavonic, which is used only in some churches
today, much like Latin is used in the Catholic Church.
Czech is written in the Latin alphabet, which English
uses, with only a few additional letters. Some Slavic
languages are written in the Cyrillic Alphabet, with Russian
being the best known example. Czech, however, has
some very interesting quirks. The Guiness World Book of
Records says that Czech uses fewer vowels than any other
language on earth, (Hawaiian uses the most
vowels.)
Here is list of words in Czech that have no vowels at
all, with their English meanings:
C'tvrt – quarter
Drn – turf
Hrb – hump
Hrst – handful
Chrt – greyhound dog
Krb – fireplace
Krk – neck
Plst – felt (the cloth material)
Prs – breast
Prst – finger
Prs' – rain
Skrz – through
Skvrn – patch, spot
Smrk – spruce tree
Smrst – tornado
Smrt – death
Srp – sickle
Srst – fur
Srdc – heart
Strz – ravine
Trh – market
Trn – thorn
Vlk – wolf
Vln – wool
Vrh – putting (in golf)
Vrch – hill
Vrt – bore, drill
Zrn – corn
And there are four prepositions that are just one letter.
They mean: with, on, at, in – depending on where they are
used
K
S
V
Z
There's always some thing even more odd than the HL
thing.
No HL -- No Vowels
The Czech Language
Can I buy a vowel?
There are three main Language Families in Europe:
Romantic, Germanic and Slavic. French, Spanish, Italian
and Portuguese are members of the Romantic language
family, with Latin as their mother. Czech belongs to the
Slavic language family. The languages of Slovakia,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and
Serbia are also in the Slavic family. Their mother is known
as Old Slavonic, which is used only in some churches
today, much like Latin is used in the Catholic Church.
Czech is written in the Latin alphabet, which English
uses, with only a few additional letters. Some Slavic
languages are written in the Cyrillic Alphabet, with Russian
being the best known example. Czech, however, has
some very interesting quirks. The Guiness World Book of
Records says that Czech uses fewer vowels than any other
language on earth, (Hawaiian uses the most
vowels.)
Here is list of words in Czech that have no vowels at
all, with their English meanings:
C'tvrt – quarter
Drn – turf
Hrb – hump
Hrst – handful
Chrt – greyhound dog
Krb – fireplace
Krk – neck
Plst – felt (the cloth material)
Prs – breast
Prst – finger
Prs' – rain
Skrz – through
Skvrn – patch, spot
Smrk – spruce tree
Smrst – tornado
Smrt – death
Srp – sickle
Srst – fur
Srdc – heart
Strz – ravine
Trh – market
Trn – thorn
Vlk – wolf
Vln – wool
Vrh – putting (in golf)
Vrch – hill
Vrt – bore, drill
Zrn – corn
And there are four prepositions that are just one letter.
They mean: with, on, at, in – depending on where they are
used
K
S
V
Z
