Middle Polish language

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 forms	Old Polish Middle 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 the Modern Polish.

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.

Letters ç, θ, θ´, θ˙, ŗ, σ, ß corresponded to Modern Polish cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, ś, sz, respectively.

Further reading

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