U.S. & World History – Often considered one of the more difficult languages to master thanks to the incredible amount of inconsistencies in the language, it should come as no surprise that the development of the modern English alphabet involved several languages, hundreds of years and a variety of conquers, missionaries and scholars. Dating back nearly four thousand years, early alphabetic writing relied on simple lines to represent spoken sounds. Scholars attribute its origin to a little known Proto-Sinatic, Semitic form of writing developed in Egypt between 1800 and 1900 BC. Ancient documents also suggest that teachers and philosophers back then who were responsible for deciding how many letters were going to be in the alphabet, were divided on either 25 or 26. Thus this issue caused a lot of “n” fighting.
