Middle Polish ( pl, język średniopolski) is the period in the
history of the Polish language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...
between the 16th and 18th centuries. It evolved from
Old Polish
The Old Polish language ( pl, język staropolski, staropolszczyzna) was a period in the history of the Polish language between the 10th and the 16th centuries. It was followed by the Middle Polish language.
The sources for the study of the Old ...
, and gave rise to
Modern Polish.
In 16th century, Polish poet
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski (; 1530 – 22 August 1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz.
Li ...
proposed a set of orthographic rules and an alphabet of 48 letters and
digraphs:
The letters ''ç'', ''θ'', ''θ´'', ''θ˙'', ''ŗ'', ''σ'', ''ß'', ''ƶ'' corresponded to Modern Polish ''cz'', ''dz'', ''dź'', ''dż'', ''rz'', ''ś'', ''sz'', ''ż'' respectively.
References
Glanville Price (01 September 2017). Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe. Wiley-Blackwell. 520 pg. . Retrieved 30 October 2020.
Further reading
*Bogdan Walczak: ''Zarys dziejów języka polskiego''. Poznań: Kantor Wydawniczy SAWW, 1995. .
Polish language
Polish, Middle
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