Why does the Czech Republic not have a country name in English ? Such as Czechland, Czechlands, Czechia.?

Question

... or even Bohemia & Moravia ? 'Cz' is not even an English grapheme for 'Ch'. Where does the word 'Czech' and its spelling come from ?

Answer 1

You find that situation with all languages and places. A place has a "naturalised" name in another language, if it was ever of interest or importance for speakers of that language.



For example, most cities in northern Italy have English and German names as well, because they were so important in the Middle Ages, while smaller places, or places further away have no German names.

I'd suppose it would be the same with the Czech Republic; because of its influence in the Holy Roman Empire, it may have been of some interest for people in England, but back then it was referred to by a different name, hence "Bohemia" exists in an English version; later the country was only known by that name as part of Austria-Hungary - the Czech language name of the place only ever came up on the international stage after 1918, and that is probably too short a time-span for a name to become "naturalised".

"Naturalisation" might not even happen today anyway, because language and terms in general are more strictly codified by the sheer amount of written material, and because of political correctness, etc. ...

Answer 2

we dont use the CH grapheme, because while in the english these are two letters, in czech this is a ONE letter or two letters, either ch or c+h. the first one is read [kh] like the russian letter X which szmbol in english is read [eks].



following your logic, our land could be read [khekh] which obviously is not the proper pronuntiation.



Bohemia is not used because Bohemia is just one part of the Czech republic. you would need to mention territories of Moravia and Silesia.



the collocated symbols C and Z were used in the medieval alphabets of Czechs and Poles for adressing the sound [ch] as in [check], similar collocations of S and Z were used to adress the sound of [sh] as in [shturmmovik]. the Recent Czech alphabet no longer uses the collocations, since it had received the new symbol addons to substitute the collocations in scripture. these new symbols are ščřž. they are dating back to the early 15th century reformation by Jan Hus.



The Poles on the other hand use the collocation even today.

Answer 3

Isn't Czech Republic enough English for you? How is that less English than Czechland?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

LOL :) Most world countries do not have english name.

Answer 6

why England has not a country name in Greek????

Answer 7

DUH , it`s from the old name for the country Czechoslovakia of course.