Middle Polish

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]

Middle Polish
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

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. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

Glanville Price (01 September 2017). Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe. Wiley-Blackwell. 520 pg. ISBN 978-0-631-22039-8. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

Further reading

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