English is a language of Indo-European Germanic language family, which consists of 26 letters. It is the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries, and it is also the most widely used language in the world. It was born in jutland and the Rhine valley, and spread to all parts of the world through British colonization. After that, it became an international language because of the world leading position of Britain and America in economy, military and politics.
Old English is greatly influenced by low Germanic languages, such as verbs, basic vocabulary, pronunciation, compound word structure, morphological changes, etc., but it is still very different from modern standard German. Modern English does not originate or evolve from Romance or French, but thousands of modern English words, a large part of which come from French, which is close to or even the same as French. Modern English and most modern European languages are spelled by letters.
What is the phonetic symbol?
Phonetic symbols are symbols for recording phonemes and writing phonemes. Used in linguistics, such as Chinese phonetic alphabet, English Webster phonetic alphabet, international phonetic alphabet, etc. The phonetic symbol was put forward by H. West P. Percy Jones. There are 20 vowels, 28 consonants and ***48 in the English phonetic alphabet. The principle of phonetic transcription is that a phonetic transcription consists of multiple phonemes, and a phonetic transcription consisting of two vowels is called diphthongs.
Phonetic symbols, similar to Chinese Pinyin, are symbols for recording phonemes and writing phonemes, such as Chinese Pinyin letters, English Webster phonetic symbols and international phonetic symbols. Its formulaic principle is: a phoneme is only represented by a phonetic symbol, and a phonetic symbol not only represents a phoneme (diphthongs phonetic symbol can be considered to be composed of 1 diphthongs phoneme, or two monosyllabic phonemes; As opposed to a single vowel. A phonetic symbol consisting of two phonemes is called diphthongs.