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People are aware that English has 26 letters. But the 26 letters of origin, I am afraid people will not know more. It turned out that the letters originated from the Latin alphabet, the Latin origins in the Greek alphabet, and Greek letters by the Phoenician alphabet evolved.
Phoenician is on the east coast of the Mediterranean countries with ancient civilizations and their location today about Lebanon and Syria along the coast.
"Phoenician" is the Greek name for the region, which means "purple state", as a result of the rich and named after the purple dye. The Romans were known as the "Punic."In the early 20th century BC, Phoenician in some small city-state of slavery, but never a unified country. In ancient times, Phoenician is a business and the world-famous seafaring. BC to the 10th century before and after, the scope of their activities have reached this Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain and northern Africa, and the establishment of a number of colonies. 8th century BC, Assyrian, Babylonian new Phoenician and other countries have been invaded. 6th century BC, Phoenician Persian Empire was finally merged.
About 13th century BC, the Phoenicians in the history of mankind has created the first batch of letters words, a total of 22 letters (without vowels). This is the Phoenicians of the great contribution to human culture. Phoenician alphabet is one of the world start writing letters. In the West, it is derived from the ancient Greek alphabet, which is in turn the development of the Latin alphabet and the Slavic alphabet. The Greek-letter Latin alphabet and letter of all Western countries. In the East, it is derived from the United States and Asia Allah letter, which has evolved in India, Arab, Hebrew, Persian, and other peoples letters. China's Uygur, Mongolia, which is also the mother of full text evolved.According to research, the Phoenician alphabet is mainly based on the ancient Egyptian word picture of the development.
In ancient Egypt, "A" that is "Tau" of the picture; "B" that is "home" or "yard" of the picture; "C" and "G" is a "colt" picture; "D" is "Doors" of the picture; "E" that is a "hands up shouting" picture; "F", "V", "Y" is that "sticks" or "support bar" picture; "H "That is" a volume Masi, "the picture;" I "that is" on the hand "of the picture;" K "is that" the hand "of the picture;" M "that is" Water "picture;" N "" Snake "picture;" O "that is" eye "of the picture;" P "that is" mouth "of the picture;" Q "that is" Shengquan "picture;" R "is the" head "The picture;" S "and" X "that is" hilly "or" Fish "picture;" T "is a" vertical cross-shaped "picture;" Z "is a" prize "or" Arrow " Picture. 2, BC century, including the Latin alphabet has 23 letters. Later, in order to facilitate the carving and hand-written, and in order to make the vowel "V" and the consonant "V" with distinction, then the original "V" into the bottom of the round vowel and as a "U"; and The two "V" even with a change of a consonant to do with the "W", the "W" has been the emergence of the 11th century is about.
It was then "I" and the other a little change and map out a consonant letter "J". In this way, the original 23 letters combined with "U", "W", "J" of the three letters, on the form the 26 letters of the alphabet. The Middle Ages, the basic shape of the Latin alphabet, the text later in the West (including, of course, in English) by it evolved. The original set in 1993, "the history of Grand View Garden"。
中文翻译：
人们都知道，英文有26个字母。但这26个字母的来历，知道的人恐怕就不多了。原来，英文字母渊源于拉丁字母，拉丁字母渊源于希腊字母，而希腊字母则是由腓尼基字母演变而来的。 腓尼基是地中海东岸的文明古国，其地理位置大约相当于今天黎巴嫩和叙利亚的沿海一带。“腓尼基”是希腊人对这一地区的称谓，意思是“紫色之国”，因该地盛产紫色染料而得名。罗马人则称之为“布匿”。
公元前20世纪初，在腓尼基产生一些小的奴隶制城邦，但从未形成统一的国家。在古代，腓尼基以工商业和航海业闻名于世。至公元前10世纪前后，其活动范围已达今塞浦路斯、西西里岛、撒丁岛、法国、西班牙和北部非洲，并建立了许多殖民地。公元前8世纪以后，亚述、新巴比伦等国相继侵入腓尼基。公元前6世纪，腓尼基终于被波斯帝国兼并。
大约公元前13世纪，腓尼基人创造了人类历史上第一批字母文字，共22个字母（无元音）。这是腓尼基人对人类文化的伟大贡献。腓尼基字母是世界字母文字的开端。在西方，它派生出古希腊字母，后者又发展为拉丁字母和斯拉夫字母。而希腊字母和拉丁字母是所有西方国家字母的基础。在东方，它派生出阿拉美亚字母，由此又演化出印度、阿拉伯、希伯莱、波斯等民族字母。中国的维吾尔、蒙古、满文字母也是由此演化而来。
据考证，腓尼基字母主要是依据古埃及的图画文字制定的。在古埃及，“A”是表示“牛头”的图画；“B”是表示“家”或“院子”的图画；“C”和“G”是表示“曲尺”的图画；“D”是表示“门扇”的图画；“E”是表示一个“举起双手叫喊的人”的图画；“F”、“V”、“Y”是表示“棍棒”或“支棒”的图画；“H”是表示“一节麻丝卷”的图画；“I”是表示“展开的手”的图画；“K”是表示“手掌”的图画；“M”是表示“水”的图画；“N”是表示“蛇”的图画；“O”是表示“眼睛”的图画；“P”是表示“嘴巴”的图画；“Q”是表示“绳圈”的图画；“R”是表示“人头”的图画；“S”和“X”是表示“丘陵地”或“鱼”的图画；“T”是表示“竖十字型”的图画；“Z”是表示“撬”或“箭”的图画。公元前2世纪时，拉丁字母已包括了这23个字母。后来，为了雕刻和手写的方便，并为了使元音的“V”和辅音的“V”相区别，便把原来的“V”的下方改成圆形而定为元音“U”；又把两个“V”连起来变出了一个做辅音用的“W”，这个“W”的出现已是11世纪的事了。后来人们又把“I”稍稍变化而另创出一个辅音字母“J”。这样，原来的23个字母再加上“U”、“W”、“J”三个字母，就构成了26个字母的字母表了。中世纪时，拉丁字母基本定型，后世西方文字（当然也包括英文）都是由它演变而来。
西西和嘻嘻
People are aware that English has 26 letters. But the 26 letters of origin, I am afraid people will not know more. It turned out that the letters originated from the Latin alphabet, the Latin origins in the Greek alphabet, and Greek letters by the Phoenician alphabet evolved
难般聊聊
英语的起源：
In 1066, William I, the Duke of Normandy, who ruled northwest of the Kingdom of France, conquered the Kingdom of England and became King of England. All the British nobles were changed into French and intermarried with the nobles of France.
公元1066年，割据法兰西王国西北部的诺曼底公爵威廉一世征服英格兰王国，成为英格兰国王，所有的英国贵族也都换成法国人，并且和法国本土的贵族通婚。
During the more than 300 years of the Norman Conquest, the monarchs and nobles of the Kingdom of England spoke French, while the clergy used Latin and Middle English. Around 1500, Middle English evolved into Modern English.
诺曼征服的三百余年间，英格兰王国的君主与贵族都讲法语，教士们则习用拉丁语，中古英语。1500年左右，中古英语演变成为近代英语。
The spelling letters used in modern English are also completely borrowed from 26 letters. The so-called "English alphabet" is the spelling letter used by ancient Romans in writing. English began to use the Latin alphabet as a spelling system around the sixth century A.D. in Anglo-Saxon times.
现代英语所使用的拼写字母，也是完全借用了26个字母。所谓“英语字母”，就是古罗马人在书写时所使用的拼写字母。英语开始以拉丁字母作为拼写系统大约是在公元六世纪盎格鲁撒克逊时代。
The missionaries introduced letters in order to record the local language into words. The problem they faced was that there were more than 40 different pronunciations in English at that time, but the Latin letters could not correspond to each other.
So they used the methods of adding letters, adding mutants to letters, and connecting two letters to correspond to different pronunciations. Later, a text system of 26 Latin letters plus plus some spelling rules was formed in Old English.
当时的传教士们为了把当地语言记录成文字而引进字母，他们所面临的问题是当时的英语共有超过40种不同的音，而拉丁字母无法一一对应，于是他们用增加字母、在字母上加变音符号、两个字母连写等方法来对应不同的发音，之后慢慢形成了古英语用26个拉丁字母+&来拼写并伴有一些拼写规则的文字系统。
扩展资料
1、词汇量
英语的词汇量非常庞大（总计990,000个），但如果要估计具体数字，必须先判断哪些能够算作其单词。不过与其他语言不同，并没有一个权威学术机构来规定何为正式的词汇。医学、科技领域不断涌现新词，一些进入了大众日常用语中，其他只在一小部分人群内部使用。移民群体带来的外语单词也经常融入英语社会中去。
2、语法
英语语法基于日耳曼语源，虽然一些18世纪和19世纪的学者试图把法语和古拉丁语的语法应用于英语，但是并不成功。英语与其他所有的印欧语系语言相比，没有那么复杂的屈折变化，也失去了几乎所有阴阳性变化，基本上，英语除了人称代词以外，已失去了性和格的分别了，它更强调词语间相对固定的顺序，也就是说英语正朝向分析语的方向发展。
参考资料来源：百度百科-英语
Sissy有福相
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca.
英语是一种西日耳曼语言，最早在中世纪早期的英国使用，最终成为全球通用语言。
It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea.
它是以盎格鲁人命名的，盎格鲁人是迁移到大不列颠地区的日耳曼部落之一，后来以他们的名字命名为英格兰。这两个名字都来源于波罗的海半岛安格利亚。
The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), and to a greater extent by Latin and French.
该语言与弗里西亚语和下萨克森语密切相关，其词汇受到其他日耳曼语言，特别是挪威语（北日耳曼语言）的显著影响，并且在很大程度上受到拉丁语和法语的影响。
English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are collectively called Old English.
英语已经发展了1400多年。英语的最早形式是5世纪盎格鲁撒克逊殖民者带到英国的一组西日耳曼方言，统称为古英语。
Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England; this was a period in which the language was influenced by French.
中世纪英语始于11世纪末，诺曼征服了英格兰，这是一个受法语影响的时期。
Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London, the printing of the King James Bible and the start of the Great Vowel Shift.
早期的现代英语始于15世纪末，随着印刷机的引入伦敦，詹姆斯国王的圣经印刷和大元音移位的开始。
Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, and later the United States, Modern English has been spreading around the world since the 17th century.
通过大英帝国以及后来的美国的全球影响，现代英语自17世纪以来一直在世界各地传播。
Through all types of printed and electronic media, and spurred by the emergence of the United States as a global superpower, English has become the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and professional contexts such as science, navigation and law.
通过各种印刷媒体和电子媒体，在美国成为全球超级大国的推动下，英语已成为国际话语的主导语言，成为科学、航海和法律等许多领域和专业背景下的通用语。
英语的起源从公元5世纪说起。那时欧陆的撒克逊人和盎格鲁人、裘特人，北渡海峡，到了不列颠岛，征服了当地的部落，成了岛上的主人。他们以后就称为盎格鲁·撒克逊人，使用的古日耳曼方言就成了盎格鲁·撒克逊语，也就是古英语。
公元9至10世纪，居住在斯堪的纳维亚的北欧日耳曼人（即诺曼人），征服了今天法国北部的高卢地区。但他们的语言和文化却很快被当地说古法语的高卢人所征服。
这部分法语化了的诺曼人在11世纪又渡海北上征服了整个不列颠，在几个世纪中统治着英国，但在语言的征服上不太成功。这一时期，古英语吸收了大量的古法语和法语化了的希腊拉丁语词汇，使英语的词汇和语法结构发生了巨大的变化。
公元16世纪，进入了近代英语和现代英语的发展时期。这一时期的英语是以英王詹姆斯钦定《圣经》英译本和莎士比亚戏剧为代表的，但和现代英语还有相当大的不同。
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