Old Polish language (Polish: język staropolski) is the period in the history of the Polish language between the 10th and the 16th centuries, followed by the Middle Polish language.
Spelling
The difficulty the medieval scribes had to face was attempting to codify the language was the inadequacy of the Latin alphabet to some sounds of the Polish language, for example cz, sz. Thus, Old Polish does not have a standard spelling. One letter could give several sounds – e.g. s can be read as s, sz or ś. Writing words was almost entirely consistent with the spelling of Latin, for example. Bichek – Byczek, Gneuos – Gniewosz etc.
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