Middle Polish language

Middle Polish
Pronunciation	[ˈjɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlski]
Spoken in	Central and Eastern Europe
Extinct	developed into Modern Polish by the 18th century
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Middle Polish
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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

In 16th century Jan Kochanowski proposed a set of orthographic rules and an alphabet of 48 letters and digraphs: a á à ą b b' c ć cz d dz dź dż é è ę f g h ch i j k l ł m m' n ń o ó p p' q r rz s ś sz t u v w w' x y z zz ź ż ż.

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. http://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.