Moravian Language - Dialects

Dialects

While the former regional dialects of Bohemia have merged into one interdialect, Common Czech (with some small exceptions in borderlands), the territory of Moravia is still linguistically diversified. This may be due to absence of a single Moravian cultural and political centre (analogous to Prague in Bohemia) for most of the history, as well as the fact that both of its major cities—Brno and Olomouc—used to be predominantly inhabited by a German-speaking population. The most common classification distinguishes four major groups of Moravian dialects: Central Moravian, Eastern Moravian, Lach and Bohemian-Moravian. Some typical phonological differences between the Moravian dialects are shown below on the sentence ‘Put the flour from the mill in the cart’: