The English language has undergone several modifications throughout the course of its lengthy and illustrious history.
Any play by William Shakespeare may be quickly perused to observe how much has changed since the Middle Ages. The alphabet used to write the language is the one item that has endured over time. The English alphabet, which was adopted in the 700s, is composed of 26 letters: five vowels, nineteen consonants, and two letters (Y and W) that may be either a vowel or a consonant. It is based on Latin script.
But is it really true that the English language no longer contains the letters of the past?
It is a Fact
Before the seventh century, Germanic runes were used to write the English language instead of Latin letters.
These were known as Futhorc, and they were nearly the same as Futhark, the runes used by other Germanic peoples, such the Scandinavian Norse.
Those who adopted the new alphabet early on imported certain runes, or made invented rune-like characters, to make up for the sounds that the English language lacked when the conversion to Latin script occurred.
In essence, the English alphabet formerly included five more letters that have now vanished: Thorn (Þ, þ), Eth (
