Polish language comes from indoeuropean language family

1. POLISH LANGUAGE
COMES FROM
INDOEUROPEAN
LANGUAGE FAMILY

3. POLISH LANGUAGE BELONGS
TO SLOVENIAN GROUP OF
LANGUAGES

5. SLOVENIAN LANGUAGES WE CAN DIVIDE
INTO 3 GROUPS:
West slovenian – Polish, Czech, Slovakian
 East slovakian – Russian, Belarussian,
Ukrainian
 South slovenian – Serbian, Croatian,
Macedonian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

6. POLISH ALPHABET CONSIST OF
23 LETTERS. IT IS LATIN
ALPHABET PLUS
Ą, Ę, Ć, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ż, Ź

7. FIRST WRITTEN WORDS IN POLISH IN 1136
FIRST WRITTEN SENTENCE IN POLISH IN 1270
„DAJ, AĆ JA POBRUSZĘ, A TY POCZYWAJ”

8. FIRST TEXTS IN POLISH
 Bogurodzica – XIII w. Polish medival anthem which
was singing before battles by Polish knights
 kazania – Kazania świętokrzyskie XIV w; Kazania
gnieźnieńskie XV
 Translations of The Holly Bible – Psałterz floriański
XIV w; Psałterz puławski XV w, Biblia królowej Zofii
XV w.
 Prayings and holly songs - Żale Matki Boskiej pod
krzyżem; Ojcze nasz, Zdrowaś Mario, Wierzę,
Dekalog XV w.

9. MODERN AGE

10. RENAISSANCE
Beginning of Polish poetry:
 Mikołaj Rej
 Jan Kochanowski

11. BAROQUE
 Jan Chryzostom Pasek
 Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

12. ENLIGHTENMENT
 Jan Potocki
 Ignacy Krasicki

13.  In XIX century (1795 to 1918) Poland
did not exist on the map of Europe and
Polish language was forbidden.
 Oficial languages were German and
Russian.
 But Polish language and literature
survive.

14. POSITIVISM
 Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo vadis - Nobel Prize
(1905)

15. MODERNISM
 Władysław Reymont: Chłopi – Nobel Prize
(1924)

16. AVANTGUARDISME
 Witold Gombrowicz
 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

17. RECENT TRENDS
 Sławomir Mrożek – playwright
 Wisława Szymborska – poet
(Nobel Prize in 1996)
 Czesław Miłosz – poet (Nobel Prize in 1980)
 Zbigniew Herbert – poet
 Ryszard Kapuściński – reporter, fact
literature

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