English comes from French, French from Latin, Latin from ancient Rome, ancient Greek from ancient Greek, and ancient Hebrew from Babylonian cuneiform.

The origin of Chinese characters should be later than cuneiform, but earlier than ancient Hebrew.

Do you think English has a long history or Chinese characters have a long history?

In fact, the real aristocratic communication language in the West is disdainful to communicate in English, and prefers to communicate in French. Because in the eyes of nobles, French is the most elegant language.

But I personally think that at the end of history, Chinese will become the lingua franca of the world. Because the alphabetic language will eventually be eliminated in the historical development trend. Because with the development of history and the increase of new things, there will be more and more English words, and no one has such a memory to remember all the English words. This will inevitably affect the development of society. China people are not like this. For example, a fire in front of "train" has become a new word. There are many situations.