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 Ol ...

, 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. ...

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.

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