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Ania Marysia published
about 4 years ago
Ania Marysia published
about 4 years ago
What is the Polish language based on having anything to do with the Latin alphabet when it became a written language?
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answered by
Pawel published
about 4 years ago
Pawel published
about 4 years ago
I took it from Polish language article in Wikipedia:
Polish began to emerge as a distinct language around the 10th century, the process largely triggered by the establishment and development of the Polish state. Mieszko I, ruler of the Polans tribe from the Greater Poland region, united a few culturally and linguistically related tribes from the basins of the Vistula and Oder before eventually accepting baptism in 966. With Christianity, Poland also adopted the Latin alphabet, which made it possible to write down Polish, which until then had existed only as a spoken language.