History of Polish language
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The Polish language is a West Slavic language, and thus descends from Proto-Slavic, and more distantly from Proto-Indo-European. More specifically, it is a member of the Lechitic branch of the West Slavic languages, along with other languages spoken in areas within or close to the area of modern Poland: including Kashubian, Silesian, and the extinct Slovincian and Polabian.
This article is about the history and evolution of the Polish language. For the history of the Polish people, see Polish people. For the history of the Polish culture, see culture of Poland.
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The history of the language can be divided into four periods of development: Old Polish, up to the start of the 16th century; Middle Polish, from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century; New Polish, up to 1930; and Modern Polish, since 1930.[1]
This page lists the most important changes that have taken place in the history of the Polish language.