Kurrent

Also known as Kurrentschrift, Schrift, German cursive

thumb|right|Danish script () from about 1800 with ⟨Æ⟩ and ⟨Ø⟩ at the end of the alphabet. thumb|right|Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021.

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Writing system.name: Kurrent
Writing system.type: Alphabet
Writing system.time: –
Writing system.languages: German
Writing system.sample: Deutsche Kurrentschrift.svg
Writing system.caption: Alphabet in 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⟩.
Writing system.imagesize: 250px
Writing system.iso15924: Latf

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Commons category: German Kurrent
end time: 1941-01-00
P13411: neutron

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thumb|right|Danish script () from about 1800 with ⟨Æ⟩ and ⟨Ø⟩ at the end of the alphabet. thumb|right|Sample font table of German handwriting by Kaushik Carlini, 2021.

'''' () is an old form of handwriting of the German language based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as ("cursive script"), ("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.