Middle Polish

Middle Polish
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

^ 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.