Biblical Czech language

Biblical Czech language is Czech literary language, which established Czech intellectuals by translation of Bible of Kralice. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was used as one of the literary languages of Slovak scholars.

Protestants in Slovakia adopted the biblical Czech language already in the 16th century. In the 18th century, biblic Czech language with Slovak elements became widely used by Slovak poets and writers.

In Biblical Czech language, significant Slovak poets wrote, they were Ján Kollár and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. They wrote in biblical czech language even though there was already the first form of literary Slovak. During the late 18th and mid-19th centuries, Catholics who held the first form of literary Slovak language were in dispute with Protestants who held biblical Czech language. The dispute was about which of the languages would become the dominant and national language of the Slovaks.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the biblical Czech language was still used in religious ceremonies of Slovak Protestants.