Where did writing come from?
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No one really knows.  The caveman had a type of writing in the pictograms s(he) painted on cave walls.  Native Americans used what amounts to grafitti thousands of years ago.  Most likely writing grew out of the need to communicate with people not immediately present, so marking a dangerous location with a warning symbol, or a promising hunting ground with a picture of wild game.  Gradually this became more refined.  Evidence of this developement remains in modern Chinese which uses a series of pictograms as an alphabet.
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I don't know about Latin origins, but I do know of Greek origins:\n\na - bios\nb - life\nc - graphein\nd - write
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It didn't come directly from one person.  It was developed from the Egyption Heiroglyphics though.  here is some information if you want it.  \n\nhttp://ask.yahoo.com/20050201.html\n\nhttp://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/alphabet.php\n\n\nAlso, there is an alphabet called the Petersonian English Alphabet which was created by David J. Peterson.  It isnt the most commonly used though.  here is that website.\n\nhttp://www.langmaker.com/db/Petersonian_English_Alphabet
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These words come from different root languages and time periods. Check out this Wikipedia link:
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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hmm ... i would like to write something, but theres no need written whats already well written\n\nhope this helps =)
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The oldest written records in the world are Sumerian from the southern end of the Euphrates and Tigris River valleys (modern Iraq).  This is the oldest written language based on the dating of the city ruins in which the records were found.  Sumerians were not "an Arab tribe".  Their language is unrelated to any other language in the world.\n\nSumerian (5000 years old), Ancient Egyptian (4500 years old), Hittite (3500 years old), Mycenean Greek (3500 years old), Latin (2800 years old), Sanskrit (2500 years old), Old Chinese (2500 years old), Mayan (2500 years old).
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As someone above mentioned, phonics comes from the Greek word phonos, sound. When Ancient Greek was spoken, phi, the letter we write as ph, was an aspirated p (something close to "puh"), not the f sound that ph has today, which evolved slowly over time to be the same sound. Despite this, the spelling conventions for the letter phi had been firmly established before this change took place.
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It is not. Back then, each copy of the Bible had to be handwritten when they were reproduced. This means the scribes had free will to add/change anything they wanted. Also the Bible was translated from Greek and Hebrew to English. So its changed a lot, because there are no originals in existence. KJV went through the hands of countless scribes before being translated.  Even the dead sea scrolls are not the originals, just really old, close to original copies. And no, they're not in English
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Dimitri was not the first.  The first one to make it was a french scientist named Jibbera.  His hand writing was so terrible though, that people began to make fun of ineligble handwriting that we call it jibberish.  A few years later, Dimitri came up with it.  Too bad for the frenchman, need to work on that handwriting.
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If you're asking for the history of language, that can be traced through various archeological websites. Generally, we can trace our English and many other European languages back to roots in northern India. But that's a "where," not a "how."\nSites that deal with theories about language are referenced below.\n\nNoam Chomsky says:\n".....which meant that the language system is like other biological systems. It develops in its own specific fashion on the basis of its genetically determined properties and in the course of this development it's modified and shaped by interaction with the outside environment in some fashion."(1)\n\nRead more on this and follow the links listed in UsingEnglish.com \n"Jelle Zuidema's essay "The Origin of Language Debate" contains a discussion about the theories put forward by Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker (who provided the basis for the now widely accepted classical theory on the origin and development of language skills), and those provided by Luc Steels and Brian MacWhinney who attempt to propose an alternative theory." (2)
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How to write in English, not whatever you just wrote.
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why are u asking if you just wrote it?
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all the words can be found to come from other languages, the majority of them are originally from Greek!\nBritain, comes from Brutus, the person who founded the new Troy, now known as London!\nScotland, is the Land of Darkness, since the Greeks went there some winter time, more than 5,000 years ago, and since it was dark, they name her so!\nGo, from the Greek verb A go\nsyndicate\ndemocracy\nkiss\nbrake\nstrategy\nand I would need a century or two to proceed!
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DID U REALLY KNEW WHAT U WERE WRITING
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First one must think before one writes. Thinking could also be subconscious and one writes automatically. This style of writing was made famous by the Irish novelist James Joyce. Since writing is a form of action, there needs to be a thought to start the writing engine.
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Our alphabet, which is just one alphabet of many, has evolved over time.  Actually we would need more than 26 letters if each letter represented one isolated sound in the English language.  Most people would designate as “English” the writing that is used to express the English language. This writing might also be termed “Latin,” or “Roman,” for even in its modern form English writing differs little from the Latin writing of more than 2,000 years ago.   The alphabet we use today can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphs.   The Elizabethan English alphabet of a few hundred years ago actually had only 24 letters.  \n\nHere are some sites that will give you quite a bit of information on this topic.