Editing Czech language (section)

=== Early Modern Czech ===
There was no standardization distinguishing between Czech and Slovak prior to the 15th century. In the 16th century, the division between Czech and Slovak becomes apparent, marking the confessional division between Lutheran Protestants in Slovakia using Czech orthography and Catholics, especially Slovak Jesuits, beginning to use a separate Slovak orthography based on Western Slovak dialects.<ref name="tuebingen">{{cite web |url=http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/tilman.berger/Publikationen/CzechSlovak.pdf |title=Slovaks in Czechia – Czechs in Slovakia |publisher=[[University of Tübingen]] |last=Berger |first=Tilman |access-date=2014-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kamusella |first1=Tomasz |title=The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe |date=2008 |publisher=Springer |pages=134–135}}</ref>

The publication of the [[Kralice Bible]] between 1579 and 1593 (the first complete Czech translation of the Bible from the original languages) became very important for standardization of the Czech language in the following centuries as it was used as a model for the standard language.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Michálek |first1=Emanuel |title=O jazyce Kralické bible |url=http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=6140#_ftn1 |website=Naše řeč |publisher=Czech Language Institute |access-date=2021-11-02 |language=Czech}}</ref>

In 1615, the Bohemian ''[[Diet (assembly)|diet]]'' tried to declare Czech to be the only official language of the kingdom. After the [[Bohemian Revolt]] (of predominantly Protestant aristocracy) which was defeated by the [[Habsburg]]s in 1620, the Protestant intellectuals had to leave the country. This emigration together with other consequences of the [[Thirty Years' War]] had a negative impact on the further use of the Czech language. In 1627, Czech and German became official languages of the Kingdom of Bohemia and in the 18th century German became dominant in Bohemia and Moravia, especially among the upper classes.<ref name="Cerna 2007 26">{{Harvnb|Cerna|Machalek|2007|p=26}}</ref>