Ústav Pro Jazyk Český Av Čr

What Ústav Pro Jazyk Český Av Čr does

Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR is a public research institution (veřejná výzkumná instituce, v. v. i.) operating under the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, formally established under its current name in 1946 with lexicographic roots dating to 1911. It functions as the primary Czech-language research institute in the country, organized across 12 specialized departments (Dialectology, Etymology, Grammar, Onomastics, Language Cultivation, Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Stylistics and Sociolinguistics, Language Development, and others) plus a Brno-based Dialectology Department and a specialized public library. Its mission is to conduct scientific research on the Czech language and language education, contribute to the application of research results, and provide research infrastructure including specialized language teaching.

The Institute's core technology and products consist of lexicographic databases, Czech language corpora, and diachronic language resources. These include the Akademický slovník současné češtiny (Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech, currently in development with 1,760 new entries published in February 2026), the Internetová jazyková příručka (Internet Language Reference — the primary public-facing Czech language guide), the Databáze jazykových dotazů (Language Inquiry Database), the Český jazykový atlas (Czech Language Atlas), corpora (DIALOG, MONOLOG, Fonologický korpus češtiny), the Elektronický slovník staré češtiny (Electronic Dictionary of Old Czech), the Vokabulář webový historical resources portal, Neomat (newest vocabulary tracker), Lexiko, and the Bibliography of Czech Linguistics. Digital infrastructure is supported through the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ large research infrastructure project funded by the Ministry of Education. The Institute also publishes scholarly journals (Naše řeč, Slovo a slovesnost, Acta onomastica).

The Institute's business model is primarily government-funded through institutional grants from MŠMT (Ministry of Education), MK (Ministry of Culture), and GA ČR (Czech Science Foundation), supplemented by Strategie AV21 program participation. A small commercial revenue stream is generated through paid expert opinions on language matters (minimum 500 CZK + VAT) and personal name verification opinions (800–1,500 CZK + VAT) for civil registries and legal entities. All digital language resources are provided free of charge. Distribution occurs through open-access global web platforms, a telephone/email language advisory service (Jazyková poradna), a public reading room, and contracted expert opinion services. Customer segments span the general public and Czech language users, the academic community (Bohemists, linguists, students), government and public institutions, and the international Bohemist scholarly community. The headquarters are in Prague (Letenská 123/4) with an additional lecture venue at Valentinská and a Brno research office.

Name

Ústav Pro Jazyk Český Av Čr

Legal name

Ústav pro jazyk český Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i.

Website

https://ujc.avcr.cz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR is a public research institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences conducting scientific research on the Czech language. It produces authoritative dictionaries, corpora, and language databases, and provides paid expert opinions and free public language consulting services to academics, government, and the general public.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Prague

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Czech Academy of Sciences institutional funding: As a public research institution (veřejná výzkumná instituce, v. v. i.) under the Czech Academy of Sciences, ÚJČ is primarily funded through government institutional grants, including support from MŠMT (Ministry of Education), MK (Ministry of Culture), and GA ČR (Czech Science Foundation) projects.
2. Language expert opinions and certifications: The Institute provides paid written expert opinions on language matters and personal name verification. Expert opinions on language topics are priced at a minimum of 500 CZK + VAT plus handling and postage fees. Personal name verification opinions range from 800 to 1,500 CZK + VAT and postage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR is a public research institute under the Czech Academy of Sciences that conducts scientific research on the Czech language and provides language consulting, lexicographic dictionaries (contemporary, historical, and dialectal), language corpora, and expert opinions on language usage and personal name verification for civil registries. The institute also publishes scholarly journals, maintains a specialized bohemistics library, and runs a public language advisory service.

Product overview

Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR is a research institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, not a commercial technology company. Its offerings consist of linguistic resources, reference tools, and scholarly services rather than a unified software platform. The core products include electronic dictionaries (Akademický slovník současné češtiny, Elektronický slovník staré češtiny, Slovník nářečí českého jazyka), language reference tools (Internetová jazyková příručka), linguistic databases (Databáze jazykových dotazů, Český jazykový atlas), corpora (Korpus DIALOG, Fonologický korpus češtiny, Korpus MONOLOG), and web-based resource portals (Vokabulář webový, Lexiko). These are supplemented by published journals (Naše řeč, Slovo a slovesnost, Acta onomastica), a language consulting service (Jazyková poradna), and expert opinion services. Access is provided through web interfaces rather than API integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Internetová jazyková příručka (Internet Language Reference Book) An official online reference guide providing comprehensive information about Czech language usage, including pronunciation, spelling, grammar, word formation, and punctuation rules for the general public and language learners.
• Akademický slovník současné češtiny (Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech) An interpretive dictionary of contemporary Czech under collaborative development by the institute's lexicographers, covering contemporary vocabulary based on corpus data for academics, students, and the public.
• Databáze jazykových dotazů (Language Inquiry Database) A linguistically structured open database providing access to inquiries and responses from the institute's language consulting service, searchable by language area or keywords, capturing language development from user perspectives.
• Český národní korpus (Czech National Corpus) An extensive computer-stored text collection used for language research, contributed to and collaborated on by the institute for linguistic researchers and academics.
• Český jazykový atlas (Czech Language Atlas) A comprehensive linguistic atlas documenting Czech regional dialects across the Czech Republic, representing a major work of Czech dialectology for researchers and the public.
• Slovník nářečí českého jazyka (Dictionary of Czech Dialects) A dictionary documenting Czech dialects, progressively published online, serving as an essential resource for dialectological research.
• Elektronický slovník staré češtiny (Electronic Dictionary of Old Czech) A dictionary processing Old Czech vocabulary in alphabetical range A to M and př- to ž, with supporting electronic publication of sources and abbreviations, for bohemists and historical linguists.
• Vokabulář webový (Web Vocabular) A web-based hub of sources for studying historical Czech, containing old dictionaries, grammars, historical text editions, the Electronic Dictionary of Old Czech, and text banks (Staročeská and Středněčeská).
• Korpus DIALOG (DIALOG Corpus) A multimedia corpus with transcripts and video recordings of television debate programs, providing material for research on Czech language interaction.
• Fonologický korpus češtiny (Phonological Corpus of Czech) A two-part corpus (phonological lexical corpus and phonological text corpus) for studying Czech pronunciation norms.
• Neomat A database documenting the newest contemporary Czech vocabulary and tracking recent additions to the Czech language.
• Lexiko A comprehensive source of lexicographic information serving as a portal and gateway to various linguistic resources.
• Bibliografie české lingvistiky (Bibliography of Czech Linguistics) A database documenting Czech linguistics and foreign bohemistics production, supplemented by digitized bibliographic yearbooks covering 1945–2001.
• Jazyková poradna (Language Consulting Centre) The only Bohemian studies facility in the Czech Republic providing systematic language consulting and expert opinions to various users of Czech via phone and email.
• Časopis Naše řeč (Naše řeč Journal) A scholarly journal published by the institute covering Czech linguistics topics for the academic and professional community.
• Časopis Slovo a slovesnost (Word and Text Journal) A scholarly journal covering word studies and text linguistics, published in collaboration with the institute.
• Expertní činnost (Expert Opinion Services) Paid written expert opinions on Czech language matters and personal name verification for civil registries, serving government offices, courts, legal entities, and individuals.

Quantifiable outcome

• Dialect research database contains over 650,000 responses from across the Czech Republic
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Feature7 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČRcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Co-organizer of the VII. Kongres světové bohemistiky (VII. Congress of World Bohemistics: Literature and Language(s) in Dialogue), held 29 June – 3 July 2026 in Prague. Both institutes are part of the Czech Academy of Sciences and collaborate on major scholarly events.
• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity KarlovycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Co-organizer of the VII. Kongres světové bohemistiky alongside Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Masaryk University Faculty of Arts, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, and Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV.
• Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Co-organizer of the VII. Kongres světové bohemistiky alongside other major Czech academic institutions.
• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAVcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 June 2026Co-organizer of the VII. Kongres světové bohemistiky, representing the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
• Regionální muzeum v LitomyšliminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint publisher of the critical edition of an 1818 manuscript containing a cookbook and rural household management guide. The manuscript was edited by Miloslava Vajdlová (ÚJČ) and Miluše Vopařilová (Regional Museum Litomyšl).
• Národní knihovna ČRminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of the exhibition 'Vyčerpaní, vyprahlí, vynalézaví' (Exhausted, Parched, Inventive) on medieval scribes and their colophons, held at Galerie Klementinum. Staff from ÚJČ's Department of Language Development (Jitka Filipová, Andrea Hlaváčová Svobodová, Hana Kreisingerová, Anna Michalcová, Kateřina Voleková) contributed to the exhibition and accompanying monograph.
• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy – Fakulta humanitních studiíminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the author team for the exhibition 'Vyčerpaní, vyprahlí, vynalézaví' on medieval scribes, together with the National Library of the Czech Republic and ÚJČ.
• Katedra geoinformatiky Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Palackého v OlomouciminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-creator of the exhibition 'Kriticky ohrožené jevy našich nářečí' (Critically Endangered Phenomena of Our Dialects) with ÚJČ's Dialectology Department. Combines linguistic and cartographic expertise.
• Akademie věd České republiky – Strategie AV21coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerÚJČ participates in the Strategie AV21 research programs, including 'Paměť v digitálním věku' (Memory in the Digital Age) and 'Anatomie evropské společnosti' (Anatomy of European Society). These programs provide institutional support and funding for ÚJČ research activities.
• LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ (MŠMT projekt LM2023062)coreTechnology or IntegrationThe Vokabulář webový and Internetová jazyková příručka are supported by the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ large research infrastructure project, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT). This provides technical infrastructure for digital language resources.
• Jazykovědné sdružení ČRminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJazykovědné sdružení ČR co-organizes lectures at ÚJČ, including the series featuring external scholars such as Peter Auer (University of Freiburg) and others.
• Kruh přátel českého jazykaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganizes lectures on Czech language topics, featuring ÚJČ researchers such as Michaela Lišková and Martin Šemelík on topics like 'Slovník jako průvodce po společenské realitě' (The Dictionary as a Guide to Social Reality).

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Oxford English Dictionary / Oxford University Press: Commercial publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, the most authoritative historical dictionary of English. Comparable in mission (definitive national dictionary production) but operates as a commercial publisher rather than a public research institute, making it a broader-market incumbent in lexicography.

Direct peers

• Accademia della Crusca: Italy's national linguistic research institution dedicated to the study and preservation of the Italian language, custodian of the Vocabolario Treccani tradition. Highly comparable as a state-recognized linguistic academy producing authoritative reference works and serving a similar regulatory-linguistic role.
• Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra SAV: Slovakia's national language institute under the Slovak Academy of Sciences, producing authoritative Slovak dictionaries and language reference works. Most direct structural peer given the shared academy-of-sciences institutional model and close Slavic-language kinship to Czech.
• Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN: Poland's premier Polish language research institute under the Polish Academy of Sciences, producing authoritative dictionaries and conducting Slavic linguistics research. Strong peer as a sister Slavic-language academy under a national academy of sciences with the same institutional structure and mission.
• Kungliga Svenska Akademien (Swedish Academy): Sweden's national language academy, custodian of the Svenska Akademiens Ordbok and arbiter of Swedish language usage. Comparable as a centuries-old statutory language authority producing definitive dictionaries and operating with a similar regulatory mandate over a single national language.
• Nederlandse Taalunie: Intergovernmental organization for Dutch language policy, regulating Dutch orthography, grammar, and language standards across the Netherlands and Belgium. Comparable as an authoritative national/regional language regulator producing official reference works akin to the Internetová jazyková příručka.
• Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS): Germany's central research institute for the German language, maintaining corpora (including the DWDS) and conducting empirical linguistic research. Directly comparable to ÚJČ as a publicly funded linguistic research institute producing corpora, dictionaries, and authoritative language reference works.
• Real Academia Española: Spain's official royal institution for the regulation of the Spanish language, producing the authoritative Diccionario de la lengua española. Directly comparable as a national language academy with statutory authority over language norms, lexicographic output, and a centuries-old institutional mandate analogous to ÚJČ's role for Czech.
• Académie française: France's preeminent authority on the French language, custodian of the official French dictionary and arbiter of linguistic usage. Highly comparable as a state-chartered language academy performing the same regulatory and lexicographic functions for French that ÚJČ performs for Czech.

Others

• LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ: Czech research infrastructure consortium providing digital hosting for ÚJČ's Vokabulář webový and Internetová jazyková příručka. Listed as a core technology partner; comparable as an enabling digital humanities infrastructure provider rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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