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Who invented the English language by merging Anglo-Saxon German and French Latin?
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No-one!
Although English could be described as a mixture of Anglo-Saxon German and French latin, the truth of the matter is much more complex and much more interesting!
Present-day day English is the consequence of hundreds (thousands?) of years of linguistic evolution, and is a living language in that it continues to grow, develop and change.
Some of the influences include Celtic (from the Britons), Gaelic, Old Norse, Frisian, German, the Jutes, the Danes, Romany, Latin, Greek, the Angles, Saxon, Norman, French.
The 'mixed-parentage' of Modern English is evident by the present day 'irregularities' of word spellings and by irregular tense forms of some words, thus revealing disparate 'foreign' roots. Many times in the history of England there have been whole regions that spoke predominantly one form of 'English' that was quite different to the 'English' spoken in other regions, each area having a vocabulary and language that was virtually unintelligible to others from another area.
Even Old English from the 6th and 7th centuries has to be completely re-translated in order to be understood today, the grammar and vocabulary then being quite different from Middle English (12th to 16th centuries) and Modern English.
In the 16th and early 17th centuries many new words were added from French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Consequently English has become a compound mixture of different language traditions, and with Anglo-Saxon, French and Classical (Latin and Greek) spelling forms all being used.
Even the English alphabet has undergone change, some sounds being represented by runic symbols, and others by Irish forms of the Latin alphabet, including Latin digraphs such as the lettter æ ('ash'). In time, and especially with the invention and usage of type and letter-press printing, some letters gradually fell into disuse. A direct consequence being that the present alphabet is a few letters short of the alphabet that was used a few hundred years ago.
Summary: Whilst English has significant Anglo-Saxon and French laitin elements, its roots are much wider.
Conclusion: It is not possible to provide on WikiAnswers a complete history of the development of the English language, but there are many books and encyclopædic sources where further information can be found:-
- E.g. a history/biography of the English language: 'The Adventure of English' (2003) by Melvyn Bragg, published by Hodder and Stoughton.
- For more information online, some internet reference sources are provided in Related links below this box.
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How did the English alphabet develop?
English comes from... English. Old English, a highly inflected Germanic language formerly known as Anglo-Saxon, had two main dialects: Anglic, which gave its name to the entire language and survives in the dialects of Northern England and lowlands Scotland; and Saxon, which became the dialect known as Standard English. There were many additions to the Old English word horde from other sources, notably Dutch and Norse, and some from the Celtic languages of Britain. The Norman Invasion brought a form of French to dominance, which introduced a great deal of vocabulary and some grammatical changes, creating the form known as Middle English. Most the Latin and Greek borrowings occurred later, during the Modern English period. - The English language is based off of the Germanic dialect spoken by the Saxons and Latin. It later absorbed more aspects of the German language when invaded by the Angles, and later still absorbed a large range of vocabulary when conquered by the French. One may still easily notice the similarities of the English language the German and Latin.
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