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Rh

The chief Bohemian sounds which require notice are:—

č&#61;ch. š&#61;sh. ž&#61;French j as in jour. ř&#61;French rg as in berger (approximately). ě&#61;ye. c&#61;ts.ch is a guttural sound as in the Scottish "loch."

The acute accent over a vowel denotes length. ů—long u. The letters "r" and "l" between consonants form a syllable without any interveningvowelintervening vowel [sic]. The name Vrchlický, for example, is divided up thus: Vrch-lic-ký.

The main accent falls in Bohemian on the first syllable of a word.