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The collaborators of Dobrovský, thanks to their specialisation, helped restore the Czech language to such a degree that it was possible to express modern scientific and philosophical knowledge in Czech. This was largely due to the creation of specialized Czech terminology, which until then did not exist. The work of the brothers Jan Svatopluk and Karel Bořivoj Presls should also be mentioned. The former focused mainly on mineralogy, chemistry, zoology and botany. Much of Svatopluk's terminology is still in use today, for example: kopretina, kukuřice, tuleň, vorvaň, myš domácí or klokan (= marguerite, corn, seal, sperm whale, house mouse or kangaroo). Czech, along with Croatian, which borrowed Presl´s word for kangaroo, are reportedly the only languages in the world that do not use the original term derived from the language Guugu Yimithirr, in which kangaroo is gangurru.
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