Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Poles in the seventeenth century Author: Henryk Krasiński

The Poles in the seventeenth century Author: Henryk Krasiński: "It is to be remarked that this song is written neither in Polish nor in Russian but in a jargon or popular language used by all the south of Poland and little Russia and which like every patois purely Sclavonic has a greater affinity to the Polish than the Russian for the latter language is mixed with many Tartar and foreign words "

Krasiński 1843

It is to be remarked that this song is written neither in Polish nor in Russian but in a jargon or popular language used by all the south of Poland and little Russia and which like every patois purely Sclavonic has a greater affinity to the Polish than the Russian for the latter language is mixed with many Tartar and foreign words The Poles in the seventeenth century Author: Henryk Krasiński

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