Pronunciation [ˈjɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlski] Glottolog None | Early form Old 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 | ||
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 the Modern Polish.
In 16th century, Polish poet Jan Kochanowski proposed a set of orthographic rules and an alphabet of 48 letters and digraphs:
Letters ç, θ, θ´, θ˙, ŗ, σ, ß corresponded to Modern Polish cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, ś, sz, respectively.
References
Middle Polish language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA