Knowledge expansion of "26 English letters";
Introduction: English letters, that is, the letters on which English is based now, ***26. The modern English alphabet completely borrows 26 Latin letters. The so-called "Latin alphabet" is the alphabet of words used by ancient Romans.
The history of letters:
In the Anglo-Saxon era of the sixth century, English began to become a written language. At that time, it was Roman Catholic missionaries who were responsible for recording the local oral language into words. The problem they face is that English (that is, old English) has more than 40 different pronunciations, but they only have 23 Roman letters (there were no J, U, W U and W at that time), so they can't correspond to each other. So they tried many different methods, such as adding letters, adding phonetic symbols to letters, connecting two letters and so on to correspond to different pronunciations, and gradually formed 27 letters and some spelling rules of old English.
1066 after the Norman conquest, many documents were French at that time. They abandoned some unfamiliar spelling rules, introduced some new rules from French, and made some new exceptions according to different situations. This made great changes in English spelling and words at that time. Some letters were abolished, while others were changed. , gradually evolved into 26 letters of modern English.
The 27 letters of old English are as follows: a? b c d？ For example: h i l m n o p r s t x y
And k is rarely used. q，？ V and Z.
There are no letters j and u. medieval, letters? Replace it with w; ? It was replaced by a, but it was still retained in the later international phonetic symbols; ? And then what? It was replaced by the th word group, but the former was preserved in later international phonetic symbols.
Classification of vowel consonants with 26 letters:
(1)5 vowels: a e i o u.
(2)2 1 consonant: b? c？ d？ f？ g？ h？ j？ k？ l？ m？ n？ p？ q？ r？ s？ t？ v？ W? x？ y？ z