A short typological characterization

According to dialectologists, Zelów dialect is one of North-Eastern dialects of Czech language (Wróblewski 2012: 50Wróblewski 2012 / komentarz/comment/r /
Wróblewski, Piotr 2012. „Kim są zelowscy Czesi?”, w: Lech M Nijakowski (red.) Czesi, seria „Mniejszości narodowe i etniczne w Polsce”. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe.
; Dejna 1990: 5ffDejna 1990 / komentarz/comment/r /
Dejna, Karol 1990. Słownik gwary czeskiej mieszkańców Kucowa. Wrocław: Ossolineum.
). By comparison, to Czechs in Zelów it was hard to ascribe their dialect to a specific region in the Czech Republic; only few people pointed to the Moravian dialect as the closest to the language variety used by themselves. Moreover, members of the Czech minority are conscious of the presence of archaisms in their dialect in comparison to standard Czech, as well as loanwords from Polish (Wróblewski 1996: 71Wróblewski 1996 / komentarz/comment/r /
Wróblewski, Piotr 1996. Społeczność czeska w Zelowie. Problemowa monografia socjologiczna. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper.
).

Genetic typology of the language:

Indo-European languages → European languages → Slavic languages → West Slavic languages → Czech language→ dialects of Czech language