Biblical Czech language is

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...

literary language A literary language is the form (register) of a language used in written literature, which can be either a nonstandard dialect or a standardized variety of the language. Literary language sometimes is noticeably different from the spoken langua ...

, which established Czech intellectuals by translation of

Bible of Kralice The Bible of Kralice, also called the Kralice Bible ( cs, Bible kralická), was the first complete translation of the Bible from the original languages into Czech. Translated by the Unity of the Brethren and printed in Kralice nad Oslavou, th ...

. Slovak scholars used as one of their literary languages in the 18th and 19th centuries. Protestants in Slovakia had already adopted the biblical Czech language in the 16th century. In the 18th century, biblical Czech language, with Slovak elements, became widely used by Slovak poets and writers.

Ján Kollár Ján Kollár ( hu, Kollár János; 29 July 1793 – 24 January 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, priest, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism. Life He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg ( ...

and

Pavel Jozef Šafárik Pavel Jozef Šafárik ( sk, Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Family ...

, significant Slovak poets, wrote in the biblical Czech language. They wrote in the biblical Czech language even though the first form of literary Slovak had already appeared. During the late 18th and mid-19th centuries, there was dispute was about which of the languages would become the dominant and national language of the Slovaks. Catholics used the first form of literary Slovak language, while Protestants used biblical Czech language. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the biblical Czech language was still used in religious ceremonies by Slovak Protestants.

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title=Slowanský národopis, author=Pavel Jozef Šafárik, publisher=Nakladem wydawatele, year=1842, language=cs
Úplné texty troch diel Jána Kollára
Czech language Christian liturgical languages