Editing Czech language (section)

===Moravian dialects===
{{main|Moravian dialects}}
{{see also|Lach dialects|Cieszyn Silesian dialect}}
[[File:Moravian dialects.png|thumb|right|upright=1.25|Traditional territory of the main dialect groups of Moravia and Czech Silesia. Green: Central Moravian, Red: East Moravian, Yellow: [[Lach dialects|Lach (Silesian)]], Pink: [[Cieszyn Silesian]], Orange: Bohemian–Moravian transitional dialects, Purple: Mixed areas]]
The Czech dialects spoken in [[Moravia]] and [[Silesia]] are known as [[Moravian dialects|Moravian]] (''moravština''). In the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak" was a language citizens could register as speaking (with German, Polish and several others).<ref>{{Harvnb|Kortmann|van der Auwera|2011|p=714}}</ref> In the 2011 census, where respondents could optionally specify up to two first languages,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zvoníček |first1=Jiří |title=Sčítání lidu a moravská národnost. Přihlásíte se k ní?  |url=https://kromerizsky.denik.cz/ctenar-reporter/scitani-lidu-a-moravska-narodnost-prihlasite-se-k-ni-20210330.html |newspaper=Kroměřížský Deník |date=30 March 2021 |access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref> 62,908 Czech citizens specified Moravian as their first language and 45,561 specified both Moravian and Czech.<ref name="obyvatelstvo">{{cite web|url=http://vdb.czso.cz/sldbvo/#!stranka=podle-tematu&tu=30629&th=&v=&vo=H4sIAAAAAAAAAFvzloG1uIhBMCuxLFGvtCQzR88jsTjDN7GAlf3WwcNiCReZGZjcGLhy8hNT3BKTS_KLPBk4SzKKUosz8nNSKgrsHRhAgKecA0gKADF3CQNnaLBrUIBjkKNvcSFDHQMDhhqGCqCiYA__cLCiEgZGvxIGdg9_Fz__EMeCEgY2b38XZ89gIIvLxTHEP8wx2NEFJM4ZHOIY5u_t7-MJ1OIP5IdEBkT5OwU5RgH5IUB9fo4ePq4uEPNYw1yDolzhPstJzEvX88wrSU1PLRJ6tGDJ98Z2CyYGRk8G1rLEnNLUiiIGAYQ6v9LcpNSitjVTZbmnPOhmArq34D8QlDDwAG10C_KFWcoe4ugU6uPtWMLA4eni6hcSEAZ0FYe_k3OQmaGJUwUA4lOtR1sBAAA.&vseuzemi=null&void=|publisher=Český statistický úřad (Czech Statistical Office)|date=March 26, 2011|access-date=July 26, 2014|title=Tab. 614b Obyvatelstvo podle věku, mateřského jazyka a pohlaví (Population by Age, Mother Tongue, and Gender)|language=cs}}</ref>

Beginning in the sixteenth century, some varieties of Czech resembled Slovak;<ref name="tuebingen"/> the southeastern Moravian dialects form a continuum between the Czech and Slovak languages,<ref name="Kortmann Auwera 516">{{Harvnb|Kortmann|van der Auwera|2011|p=516}}</ref> using the same declension patterns for nouns and pronouns and the same verb conjugations as Slovak.<ref name="tartu">{{cite web|last=Šustek|first=Zbyšek|title=Otázka kodifikace spisovného moravského jazyka (The question of codifying a written Moravian language)|publisher=[[University of Tartu]]|year=1998|url=http://www.britskelisty.cz/9809/19980914d.html|language=cs|access-date=July 21, 2014}}</ref>

A popular misconception holds that eastern Moravian dialects are closer to Slovak than Czech, but this is incorrect; in fact, the opposite is true, and certain dialects in far western Slovakia exhibit features more akin to standard Czech than to standard Slovak.<ref name="rejzek" />

The [[Czech Statistical Office]] in 2003 recognized the following Moravian dialects:<ref name="map"/>
*''Nářečí českomoravská'' (Bohemian–Moravian dialects)
*''Nářečí středomoravská'' (Central Moravian dialects)
:*''Podskupina tišnovská'' ([[Tišnov]] subgroup)
*''Nářečí východomoravská'' (Eastern Moravian dialects)
:*''Podskupina slovácká'' ([[Moravian Slovakia|Moravian Slovak]] subgroup)
:*''Podskupina valašská'' ([[Moravian Wallachia]]n subgroup)
*''Nářečí slezská'' (Silesian dialects)