Who came up with our English language as well as ABC's?

Answer 1

The English language, as many have noted, developed through a long history. Essentially, Old English came from a cluster of Germanic dialects brought to Britain by the Angles and Saxons in beginning in the 5th century A.D., with major changes caused by the invasion of the Norman FRENCH in 1066 (giving us Middle English).

As for the alphabets, the answers given so far are a bit off. Yes, we got it from the Latin alphabet and they borrowed from the Greek, but the original was NOT from Hindi or Sumerans! It was from invented by speakers of a "Northwest Semitic language" (same group that includes Hebrew and Aramaic), probably near the border of Egypt in the early 2nd millennium B.C. (Greeks borrowed it from Phoenician traders.)

In fact, you can see the origins in "alphabet" -- the word comes from the Greek "alpha" and "beta" (equivalent of A & B), but those are meaningless words in Greek. The go back to the names of the Semitic letters: "aleph" and "beth"

Answer 2

All I know is that our language is so confusing, because people used to need private tutors to teach them English and the rich folk who could afford these tutors didn't want the poor people(like the slaves) to be able to figure it out for themselves. Thus, they purposly made our language difficult. You may want to check some of that, but I think that the general idea is right. Also do you know why the letters on our keyboard seem so scattered? Some say that it's because when typewriters first came out, with the letters in alphabetical order some people were able to type so fast that the typecars would jam. constantly so it was changed to slow typers down. A more likely explanation is that the QWERTY arrangement(the arrangement of keys most common today) was designed to reduce the likelihood of internal clashing by placing commonly used combinations of letters farther away from each other inside the machine. This allowed the user to actually type faster without jamming. Unfortunately, no definitive explanation for the QWERTY keyboard has been found, and typewriter aficionados continue to debate the issue.

As far as your actual question concerns please visit this page at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language

Wikipedia's article on typewriters is where I took the information on a more likley story of the origans of the QWERTY keyboard arrrangement. Here is the website for that article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

I'm not sure but this may help for where are abc's originated from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

Answer 3

Bartholomew Bentwhistle of Currey-on-Barsdon created the first written alphabet for English in the year 1327 B.C. He had been staying with some friends and realized the total lack of communications was so frustrating he came up with the idea for an English language. He taught it to his friends, but they had a very difficult time remembering the rules. As Sire Bentwhistle needed to return home before a raid by certain forerunners of the Visigoths occurred, he needed some way to record his teachings, the real ABC's of the English language. With that revelation, he wrote down 26 symbols with varying combinations of sounds. At first the written word was simple, "Grunt, grunt, ooh-ooh" and such but it eventually grew into Shakespearean plays. So as you speak, raise a glass and toast Bartholomew Bentwhistle.

Answer 4

I stay in the States and am consequently greater familiar with the countless American accents i've got encountered than their British opposite numbers. nonetheless, this is a query of what you're uncovered to. in case you were reported in Britain, or for that matter any of the latter's former colonies, you will possibly unavoidably have a distinctive viewpoint. I talk English and French, and with French we've an identical subject concerns: human beings in specific cases declare to have concern understanding French because it is spoken in Canada (Québec, many times), yet for human beings in Québec or who've traveled there lots this is a non-undertaking.

Answer 5

The English alphabet was written using the Latin alphabet. The Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. Roman legend credited the introduction to one Evander, son of the Sibyl, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan war, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale.

Answer 6

Our current alphabet is derived from the ancient Roman alphabet. Our letters are called Roman Letters. The Romans based many of their letters on older Greek forms.

The Greeks borrowed from even older cultures, including Hindi, Summerian and others.

The English language is a mixed bag, tracing many word roots to Celtic, Germanic, Latin roots and many others.

Sorry, "I_Love_Hugs" we DO, very well know the answer to these questions. Just because you don't, please don't assume others don't. Give them a chance to answer.

Answer 7

Noone "came up" with it. It developed over many hundreds of years and has been influenced my several other languages.

Answer 8

Webster differentiated the pronunciation so that it was different than British English. No, Really

Answer 9

I think that this is one of those unanswered questions that we never really know. It was so long ago, and I think taht we should jsut appreciate that we were given this gift, because communication is our key to survival.

Answer 10

god