Czech studies

[Martin Votruba]

> The fact that there is an 'a' at the end of a first name is not
> always an infallible indicator of gender even in Czech, Slovak.

Slovak and Czech differ.  Men's first names/nicknames commonly end in 
-a in Czech (Mila, Jozka, Honza, Jirka, Vlada...), like in Russian. 
They don't in Slovak.


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu

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