| Kurrent | |
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 Alphabet inKurrent script from about 1865. The next-to-last line shows the umlauts ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, ⟨ü⟩, and the corresponding capital letters ⟨Ae⟩, ⟨Oe⟩, and ⟨Ue⟩; and the last line shows the ligatures ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ck⟩, ⟨th⟩, ⟨sch⟩, ⟨sz⟩ (⟨ß⟩), and ⟨st⟩. | |
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Period | – |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Languages | German |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Latf(217), Latin (Fraktur variant) |
| This article containsphonetic transcriptions in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, seeHelp:IPA. For the distinction between[ ],/ / and ⟨ ⟩, seeIPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. | |
Kurrent (German:[kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of handwriting of theGerman language based on late medievalcursive writing, also known asKurrentschrift ("cursive script"),deutsche Schrift ("German script"), andGerman 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 andLatin cursive, in parallel: Location, contents, and context of the text determined which script style to use.
Sütterlin is a modern script based onKurrent 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. Then it was replaced withdeutsche Normalschrift ("normal German handwriting"), which is sometimes referred to as "Latin writing".
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