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Which Czech dialect became the basis for standard written Czech?
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The central dialect of 16th–17th-century Prague became the basis for standard written Czech. Czech is a West Slavic language spoken in the Czech Republic, closely related to Slovak, Polish, and the Sorbian languages. It is written using the Roman alphabet.1