Who created the English Alphabet?

Question

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Answer 1

Yes, the letters used to spell English words (and the words of most European languages) MOSTLY belong to the Roman alphabet.

To be more correct, however, the alphabet was not "invented" by the Romans for their language. Rather, the Romans modified the Greek alphabet (the first two Greek letters alpha and beta give us the word alphabet). The Greeks didn't invent it either, but modified the Phoenician alphabet, and I'm sure it goes back even further.

Also, there are some letters used in English, which were not part of the Roman alphabet, e.g. "j" and "w". To the Romans, what we now distinguish as the letters "i" and "j" in English words derived from Latin were actually the same letter and always written using the letter "i." Something similar goes on with the letters "u" and "v," but we won't get into that right now.

So the alphabet that we now use in English has also been modified from what the Romans used. Since not all languages use the same sounds, the alphabet is changed to include letters that represent those sounds where necessary.

Answer 2

The official English alphabet will not be getting any new letters. Linguists have created their own phonetic letter additions to the familiar letters in the English alphabet to better capture the range of sounds when English is spoken in real life. Whoever told you that every sound is already captured by a letter in the standard English alphabet doesn't know what they're talking about.

Answer 3

The English Alphabet doesn´t exist.
The English language use the Latin Alphabet.

Answer 4

Same people who created the Latin alphabet long before english came out of the woods

Answer 5

There is no 'English Alphabet' per se; English, like French, German, Spanish and Italian, among other languages, uses the Roman alphabet, which was invented by the ancient Romans for their language, Latin.

Answer 6

The Roman letters that we use developed from Eutruscan writing with influence from Greek writing.

It is believed that these came from Phoenisian writing which is based on the Early Semitic alphabet.

I believe that the Early Semitic alphabet like the Greek and Eutruscan developed from certain particular Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols, commonly believed to not be related in phonetic value, but I believe they are related in phonetic value.

In any case the fact is all of these Roman letters originate from pictograms, (picture symbols).

Answer 7

Evolved from the Latin Alphabet