Kurrent
Form of German-language handwriting
Kurrent (German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of handwriting of the German language, and during the 19th century also the Nordic languages, based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.
German writers used both cursive styles, Kurrent and Latin cursive, in parallel: Location, contents, and context of the text determined which script style to use.
Sütterlin is a modern script based on Kurrent that is characterized by simplified letters and vertical strokes. It was developed in 1911 and taught in all German schools as the primary script from 1915 until the beginning of January 1941, when it was replaced with deutsche Normalschrift ("normal German handwriting"), sometimes called "Latin writing".
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Deutsche Kurrentschrift.svg by Deutsche_Kurrentschrift.jpg: AndreasPraefcke derivative work: Martin Kozák (talk), Public domain
- Dänische Kurrentschrift.png by unidentified sample from historical handwriting lesson book, Public domain
- Tavola Kurrentschrift" kaushik carlini.jpg by WahrheitOderPlficht?, CC BY-SA 4.0
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