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Also Known As Čeština • Moravian dialect • Bohemian language

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Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
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