Middle Polish language

Middle Polish

Pronunciation| [ˈjɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlski]
Region| Central and Eastern Europe
Era| developed into Modern Polish by the 18th century

Language family

Indo-European

* Balto-Slavic
* Slavic
* West Slavic
* Lechitic
* Middle Polish

Early form

Old Polish

Language codes
ISO 639-3| –
Glottolog| None

Middle Polish (Polish: język średniopolski) is the period in the history of the Polish language between the 16th and 18th centuries. It evolved from Old Polish, and gave rise to Modern Polish.[1]

In 16th century, Polish poet Jan Kochanowski proposed a set of orthographic rules and an alphabet of 48 letters and digraphs:

a á à ą b b́ c ć ç d θ θ´ θ˙ é è ę f g h ch i k l ł m ḿ n ń o ó p ṕ q r ŗ ſ σ ß t v w ẃ x y z ź ƶ.

The letters ç, θ, θ´, θ˙, ŗ, σ, ß corresponded to Modern Polish cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, ś, sz, respectively.

## References

1. ↑ Glanville Price (28 April 2000). Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-631-22039-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=29BAeKHwvuoC&pg=PA360. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

## Further reading

* Bogdan Walczak: Zarys dziejów języka polskiego. Poznań: Kantor Wydawniczy SAWW, 1995. ISBN 83-85954-51-1.

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