About the origin of English, we have to start from the 5th century. At that time, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes in Europe crossed the Strait to the British Island, conquered the local tribes and became the masters of the island. They were later called Anglo-Saxons, and the ancient Germanic dialect they used became Anglo-Saxon, that is, Old English.
In the 9th-/kloc-0th century, the Nordic Germans living in Scandinavia (that is, the Normans) conquered the Gaul region in northern France today. But their language and culture were soon conquered by the local Gauls who spoke old French.
1 1 century, these French normans crossed the ocean and conquered Britain for centuries, but they were not very successful in language conquest. During this period, Old English absorbed a large number of Greek Latin words created by Old French and French, which greatly changed English vocabulary and grammatical structure.
English is a language of Indo-European Germanic language family, which consists of 26 letters. English letters originated from Latin letters, which originated from Greek letters, which evolved from Phoenician letters. It is also a widely used language in the world. English contains about 490,000 words, plus about 300,000 technical terms. It is the language with the largest vocabulary and the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries. It has the third largest number of native speakers in the world, second only to Chinese and Spanish.
Different from Esperanto, English is deliberately invented by people, but gradually formed in social activities. English originated in England. Around 499 AD, three Germanic tribes living in northwest Europe-the Angles, Saxons and Jutes-invaded Britain.