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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.
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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.)
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Here is list of words in Czech that have no vowels at all, with their English meanings:
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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
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