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* The historical development of the English language 1 Modern English, 16th Century onward 2 Middle English, 1100-1500 3 Old English, 449-11th Century 4 Ancient Latin/Greek 5 Phoenician, 3000 BC 6 Egyptian pictograph/ hieroglyph,4000BC The philosophical influences on both English and Chinese Aristotle: rationality Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism: Sensibility English VS. Chinese: Ten Pairs of Features 1. Synthetic VS Analytic A synthetic language is characterized by frequent and systematic use of inflected forms to express grammatical relationships. An analytic language is marked by a relativ