How is English formed?

English evolved from the ancient language spoken by Anglo-Saxons and white jute tribes who immigrated to the British Isles from Scandinavia, such as Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and surrounding areas, and spread to all parts of the world through active British colonization.

Due to contact with many national languages in history, vocabulary has changed from unitary to pluralistic, grammar has changed from "more inflections" to "less inflections", and pronunciation has changed regularly.

19 From the 20th century, the leading position of Britain and America in world culture, economy, military affairs, politics and science made English an international language. Nowadays, English is used as a medium of communication in many international situations.

The spelling letters used in modern English are also completely borrowed from 26 letters. The so-called "English letters" are the spelling letters used by ancient Romans when writing. English began to use Latin letters as its spelling system in the Anglo-Saxon era in the sixth century.

At that time, missionaries introduced letters in order to record the local language into words. The problem they faced was that there were more than 40 different pronunciations in English at that time, but the Latin letters could not correspond to each other. So they adopted the methods of adding letters, adding phonetic symbols to letters, connecting two letters to correspond to different pronunciations, and then slowly formed old English with 26 Latin letters+&; A writing system with some spelling rules.

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English is the first language in Britain, America, Australia, Bahamas, Ireland, Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago. 2 1 century, about 500 million people in the world speak English as their first language (mother tongue).

English is the lingua franca of Canada, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Micronesia (Federated States of), Ireland (Irish), Liberia (African language) and South Africa (Afrikaans and other African languages). The population as a second language (that is, not the mother tongue, but the language of the host country) is about 654.38 billion.

English grammar is based on Germanic etymology. Although some scholars in18th century and19th century tried to apply French and ancient Latin grammar to English, they failed. Compared with all other Indo-European languages, English has less complicated inflections and almost lost all the yin-yang changes.

Basically, apart from personal pronouns, English has lost the distinction between sex and case, and it emphasizes the relatively fixed order of words, which means that English is developing in the direction of analytical language (for example, a cat's tail can be written as cat's tail instead of cat's tail, where the cat directly uses the root prototype without sticking cat's with case).

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