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The past hundred years of the development of the Polish language, i.e. the period 1918-2018, is distinguished primarily for commemorative reasons connected with regaining independence by Poland after 123 years of partitions. It turns out, however, that the century can be easily captured in linguistic categories. As regards periodisation of the history of Polish, it encompasses the last four phases of the Modern Polish period, which are determined by a coincidence of six sociolinguistic trends and fi ve major system development trends based on more than 150 processes and specifi c changes.