The pronunciation of the 26 letters is: [ei][bi:][si:][di:][i:][ef][d?i:][eit∫][ai][ d?ei][kei][el][em][en][?u][pi:][kju:][ɑ:][es][ti:][ju:][vi:][′d ∧blju:][eks][wai][zi:][zed]
The writing order of the 26 letters is as follows:
Uppercase
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The 26 letters can be divided into vowels and consonants:
1. Vowel letters: a, e, i, o, u
2. Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, zExtended information
The origin of the English alphabet:
The English alphabet is derived from the Latin alphabet, the Latin alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, and the Greek alphabet evolved from the Phoenician alphabet.
Phoenicia was an ancient civilization on the east coast of the Mediterranean. Its geographical location is approximately equivalent to the coastal areas of today's Lebanon and Syria. "Phoenicia" is the name given to this area by the Greeks, which means "Purple Country". It was named because the purple dye was abundant in the area. The Romans called it "Punic".
At the beginning of the 20th century BC, some small slave city-states emerged in Phoenicia, but they never formed a unified country. In ancient times, Phenicia was famous for its industry, commerce and navigation.
By around the 10th century BC, its scope of activities had reached present-day Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain and northern Africa, and many colonies had been established.
After the 8th century BC, Assyria, Neo-Babylon and other countries successively invaded Phoenicia. In the 6th century BC, Phenicia was finally annexed by the Persian Empire.
About the 13th century BC, the Phoenicians created the first alphabetical writing in human history, with 22 letters (no vowels). This is the great contribution of the Phoenicians to human culture. The Phoenician alphabet was the beginning of alphabetic writing in the world.
In the West, it derived from the ancient Greek alphabet, which in turn developed into the Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet. The Greek alphabet and the Latin alphabet are the basis of all Western alphabets.
In the East, it derived from the Arabic alphabet, from which the Indian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other national alphabets evolved. China's Uyghur, Mongolian, and Manchu alphabets also evolved from this.
English began to become a written language around the sixth century AD during the Anglo-Saxon era. At that time, Roman Catholic missionaries were responsible for recording the spoken language of the local people into writing.
The problem they faced was that the English language at that time (i.e. Old English) had more than 40 different phonemes, but they only had 23 Roman letters (there were no J, U, or W at the time) , cannot correspond one to one.
So they experimented with many different methods, such as adding letters, adding diacritical marks on letters, connecting two letters, etc. to correspond to different pronunciations, and gradually formed the 27 letters of Old English. and some spelling rules.
After the Norman Conquest in 1066, many of the clerks at that time were French. They abandoned some spelling rules that they were not accustomed to, and introduced some new rules from French. According to different situations, they formulated Some new exceptions have been added.
This caused a huge change in the spelling and wording of English at that time. Some letters were abolished, and some were transformed, gradually evolving into the 26 letters of modern English.