who invented english alphabets?

Question

who had invented the abcd

Answer 1

Old English

The English language has been written using the Latin alphabet from ca. the 7th century. Since the 5th century, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc had been used, and both alphabets continued to be used in parallel for some time. Futhorc influenced the Latin alphabet by providing it with the letters thorn þ and wynn ƿ. The letter eth ð was later devised as a modification of d, and finally yogh ȝ was created by Norman scribes from the insular g used in Old English and Irish and used alongside their Carolingian g. Additionally, the ligatures double-u w for vv, æsh æ for ae, and œthel œ for oe were in use.

In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes.[2] He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including ampersand) first, then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian nota or ond, ⁊, which was a specifically English symbol for and:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ

Modern English

In Modern English orthography, þ, ȝ, ð, and ƿ are obsolete, although þ continued its existence for some time, its lower case form gradually becoming graphically indistinguishable from the minuscule y in most handwritings. On the other hand, u and j were introduced as distinct from v and i in the 16th century, and w assumed the status of an independent letter, so that the English alphabet is now considered to consist of the following 26 letters:

Letter Letter name (IPA)
A a [eɪ]
B bee [biː]
C cee [siː]
D dee [diː]
E e [iː]
F ef [ɛf] (spelled eff as a verb)
G gee [dʒiː]
H aitch [eɪtʃ] or haitch [heɪtʃ] in Hiberno-English
I i [aɪ]
J jay [dʒeɪ]
K kay [keɪ]
L el [ɛl]
M em [ɛm]
N en [ɛn]
O o [oʊ]
P pee [piː]
Q cue [kjuː]
R ar [ɑɹ] (rhotic) or [ɑː] (non-rhotic) (see rhotic and non-rhotic accents)
S ess [ɛs] (spelled es- in compounds like es-hook)
T tee [tiː]
U u [juː]
V vee [viː]
W double-u [ˈdʌb(ə)l juː]
X ex [ɛks]
Y wy [waɪ] (sometimes spelled wye)
Z zed [zɛd]; zee [ziː] in American English

Unfortunately, these common names for the letters are often hard to distinguish from each other when heard. The NATO phonetic alphabet gives each letter a name specifically designed to sound different from any other. Therefore, aircraft pilots and many other people use the NATO phonetic alphabet names instead of these common names.

Answer 2

The Modern English Alphabet’s Evolution from Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
About eight symbols from the modern alphabet can be traced back in an unbroken line to Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is surmised that the other symbols were inspired by Egyptian glyphs or newly invented. Most symbols morphed to a greater or lesser degree as they went from alphabet to alphabet, confounded by writing and letters often having no fixed direction. A number of signs were dropped when the new people didn’t have a certain sound, and new signs were derived, or an old sign was employed to express a new sound.

The accompanying chart in this link "http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/pix/alphabet.gif" attempts to trace each letter as fully as possible. The following unfolding (really the chart’s annotation) is culled from articles, journals, popular books (noted below) and some of their references, which show that many of the theories are still quite contentious, and do change with continuous new archeological discoveries.

Egyptian -> proto-Sinaitic
Proto-Sinaitic ->Phoenician
Phoenician -> Greek
Greek ->Etruscan
Etruscan ->Roman
Roman -> modern english

Answer 3

Nobody. It gradually developed from older alphabets as you can find explained in dictionaries and encyclopedias which will have a table showing development. There are letters once used in English that are no longer used, in particular the character once used for th.

Answer 4

The Post cereal Co. Alphabets cereal hit the US markets during the Spring of 1962... LOL... actually the English language was established via the combination of Latin and Greek during mid 7th century...

Answer 5

It wasn't really invented. I emerged.

Answer 6

small abcd how many years smaller then capital ABC