Who invented English?

Answer 1

Nobody really invented it. It is a culmination of various root languages; Greek, Latin, Germanic, etc. Words evolved over many the years by different tribal groups as each successive generation changed the way a word was pronounced. Also to take into consideration that the modern dictionary was just that. There were no universal dictionaries centuries ago which recorded standards of how a word was spelled, pronounced or even meant.

Answer 2

The English

Answer 3

The English

Answer 4

Ye olde Englishe people-e

Answer 5

The first written languages came from the middle east. English, Spanish, Italian, and French all developed from Latin spoken in Rome during it's prime. I took 3 years of latin and it really helped out my english too to be honest.

Answer 6

King James of England was the first to standardize it. He was the one who ordered that the Bible be translated from Hebrew into what we call the 'Kings English' in order to make Christianity more accessible to the common man.

Answer 7

no one person invented English... English evolved from Latin, french, some from the Teutonic languages (the Anglo-Saxons)

you can see the "evolution" of English from Beowulf, to Chaucer, to Shakespeare, and on ward until you get to today's modern vernacular

Answer 8

Could possibly be the English though America would swear it was them

Answer 9

All of our root words come from different origins. Mainly Latin, Greek, and French. If you look a word up in the dictionary, it will usually tell you where the word originated.

Answer 10

The Poles.