The Development of English

Old English 449- 1150
   Old English uses the Latin alphabet that has 26 consonants and vowels. When this language first began it only had a few words of kinship like faeder, modor, brothor, sweostor, and dohter.

Old English Alphabet

http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/24_the_development_of.htm

Middle English 1150-1500
  In this time the English language was transformed and a French element was put in. There were two main streams of literature, religious literature and secular literature.


  http://www.msedl.wz.cz/english_literature.pdf