Czech Language: Facts for Translators

Czech (cs, ces) belongs to the Czech–Slovak languages. Wikidata records about 10.7M speakers. It is written in Czech alphabet. It is an official language in 1 country, including Czech Republic.

Czech has seven cases, three genders and three plural forms; diacritics (háček, čárka) must be supported everywhere.

Expect text translated from English into Czech to grow by roughly 10–25%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.

10.7M

Speakers

+10…+25%

Text length vs English

$0.07–0.15

Indicative rate / word

Translation guides

Where Czech is official

Czech Republic

Rates for Czech translation

Czech falls in our central & eastern european band: roughly $0.07–$0.15 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →

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From Wikipedia

Czech, historically known as Bohemian, is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 12 million people including second-language speakers, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German.