《英语的由来》的英文版哪里有？

People are aware that English has 26 letters. But the 26 letters of origin, I am afraid people will not know more. It turned out that the letters originated from the Latin alphabet, the Latin origins in the Greek alphabet, and Greek letters by the Phoenician alphabet evolved.

Phoenician is on the east coast of the Mediterranean countries with ancient civilizations and their location today about Lebanon and Syria along the coast. 

"Phoenician" is the Greek name for the region, which means "purple state", as a result of the rich and named after the purple dye. The Romans were known as the "Punic."In the early 20th century BC, Phoenician in some small city-state of slavery, but never a unified country. In ancient times, Phoenician is a business and the world-famous seafaring. BC to the 10th century before and after, the scope of their activities have reached this Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain and northern Africa, and the establishment of a number of colonies. 8th century BC, Assyrian, Babylonian new Phoenician and other countries have been invaded. 6th century BC, Phoenician Persian Empire was finally merged.

About 13th century BC, the Phoenicians in the history of mankind has created the first batch of letters words, a total of 22 letters (without vowels). This is the Phoenicians of the great contribution to human culture. Phoenician alphabet is one of the world start writing letters. In the West, it is derived from the ancient Greek alphabet, which is in turn the development of the Latin alphabet and the Slavic alphabet. The Greek-letter Latin alphabet and letter of all Western countries. In the East, it is derived from the United States and Asia Allah letter, which has evolved in India, Arab, Hebrew, Persian, and other peoples letters. China's Uygur, Mongolia, which is also the mother of full text evolved.According to research, the Phoenician alphabet is mainly based on the ancient Egyptian word picture of the development.

In ancient Egypt, "A" that is "Tau" of the picture; "B" that is "home" or "yard" of the picture; "C" and "G" is a "colt" picture; "D" is "Doors" of the picture; "E" that is a "hands up shouting" picture; "F", "V", "Y" is that "sticks" or "support bar" picture; "H "That is" a volume Masi, "the picture;" I "that is" on the hand "of the picture;" K "is that" the hand "of the picture;" M "that is" Water "picture;" N "" Snake "picture;" O "that is" eye "of the picture;" P "that is" mouth "of the picture;" Q "that is" Shengquan "picture;" R "is the" head "The picture;" S "and" X "that is" hilly "or" Fish "picture;" T "is a" vertical cross-shaped "picture;" Z "is a" prize "or" Arrow " Picture. 2, BC century, including the Latin alphabet has 23 letters. Later, in order to facilitate the carving and hand-written, and in order to make the vowel "V" and the consonant "V" with distinction, then the original "V" into the bottom of the round vowel and as a "U"; and The two "V" even with a change of a consonant to do with the "W", the "W" has been the emergence of the 11th century is about. 

It was then "I" and the other a little change and map out a consonant letter "J". In this way, the original 23 letters combined with "U", "W", "J" of the three letters, on the form the 26 letters of the alphabet. The Middle Ages, the basic shape of the Latin alphabet, the text later in the West (including, of course, in English) by it evolved. The original set in 1993, "the history of Grand View Garden"。

中文翻译：

人们都知道，英文有26个字母。但这26个字母的来历，知道的人恐怕就不多了。原来，英文字母渊源于拉丁字母，拉丁字母渊源于希腊字母，而希腊字母则是由腓尼基字母演变而来的。 
腓尼基是地中海东岸的文明古国，其地理位置大约相当于今天黎巴嫩和叙利亚的沿海一带。“腓尼基”是希腊人对这一地区的称谓，意思是“紫色之国”，因该地盛产紫色染料而得名。罗马人则称之为“布匿”。 

公元前20世纪初，在腓尼基产生一些小的奴隶制城邦，但从未形成统一的国家。在古代，腓尼基以工商业和航海业闻名于世。至公元前10世纪前后，其活动范围已达今塞浦路斯、西西里岛、撒丁岛、法国、西班牙和北部非洲，并建立了许多殖民地。公元前8世纪以后，亚述、新巴比伦等国相继侵入腓尼基。公元前6世纪，腓尼基终于被波斯帝国兼并。 

大约公元前13世纪，腓尼基人创造了人类历史上第一批字母文字，共22个字母（无元音）。这是腓尼基人对人类文化的伟大贡献。腓尼基字母是世界字母文字的开端。在西方，它派生出古希腊字母，后者又发展为拉丁字母和斯拉夫字母。而希腊字母和拉丁字母是所有西方国家字母的基础。在东方，它派生出阿拉美亚字母，由此又演化出印度、阿拉伯、希伯莱、波斯等民族字母。中国的维吾尔、蒙古、满文字母也是由此演化而来。 

据考证，腓尼基字母主要是依据古埃及的图画文字制定的。在古埃及，“A”是表示“牛头”的图画；“B”是表示“家”或“院子”的图画；“C”和“G”是表示“曲尺”的图画；“D”是表示“门扇”的图画；“E”是表示一个“举起双手叫喊的人”的图画；“F”、“V”、“Y”是表示“棍棒”或“支棒”的图画；“H”是表示“一节麻丝卷”的图画；“I”是表示“展开的手”的图画；“K”是表示“手掌”的图画；“M”是表示“水”的图画；“N”是表示“蛇”的图画；“O”是表示“眼睛”的图画；“P”是表示“嘴巴”的图画；“Q”是表示“绳圈”的图画；“R”是表示“人头”的图画；“S”和“X”是表示“丘陵地”或“鱼”的图画；“T”是表示“竖十字型”的图画；“Z”是表示“撬”或“箭”的图画。公元前2世纪时，拉丁字母已包括了这23个字母。后来，为了雕刻和手写的方便，并为了使元音的“V”和辅音的“V”相区别，便把原来的“V”的下方改成圆形而定为元音“U”；又把两个“V”连起来变出了一个做辅音用的“W”，这个“W”的出现已是11世纪的事了。后来人们又把“I”稍稍变化而另创出一个辅音字母“J”。这样，原来的23个字母再加上“U”、“W”、“J”三个字母，就构成了26个字母的字母表了。中世纪时，拉丁字母基本定型，后世西方文字（当然也包括英文）都是由它演变而来。