Polonizacja języka ormiańsko-kipczackiego
Polonization of the Armeno-Kipchak language

Summary/Abstract: Polish Armenians (14-1−7th c,) used the Kipchak language in everyday life (at home, in trade and in social situations) but wrote it with the Armenian alphabet. They only used the Old Armenian language in church and in religious texts. Living in what was at that time south-eastern Poland, they were in constant contact with the Polish and Ukrainian languages, which naturally resulted in numerous lexical influences from those languages. In the current paper, ca. 350 lexical borrowings are presented, which have been collected from Armeno-Kipchak texts from years 1559 to 1669.

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