Talk:Kurrent

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I've removed the {move to wiktionary} tag from this as well as the deprecated {substub} tag; it can be more than just a dicdef, but isn't now. Someone who knows the subject and/or the German language might do well to take a look at de:Kurrentschrift and de:Deutsch Kurrentschrift. Also, I'm not sure if "kurrent" as used in English really does refer just to a way of writing German; what little I can get from de:Kurrentschrift tells me that it is used for other languages, especially Arabic. If that's the case, the interwiki link is wrong too. CDC (talk) 02:49, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

The German term "Kurrent" or "Kurrentschrift" refers to any alphabet that has developed by/for handwriting.

I tried to translate the German entry for Kurrentschrift, but it needs some cleaning. I am particularly unsure whether I used the term "script" correctly for "Schrift". (sorry, German native speaker)

from latin currens=running, handwritten scripts that tend to join individual characters, which increases writing speed, often at the expense of beauty or precision of the characters. Ascenders and descenders are often "looped" in order to increase readability.

Well-known representants of this scripts are the German Kurrentschrift and the Arabic script. But also the Greek and Cyrillian scripts have kurrent handwriting forms. There is also a kurrent script in Hebrew, but the joining of characters isn't advanced very far. Modern Arabic alphabets are all kurrent scripts, with printed forms moving away from forms that are too much joined.

In Palaeography, these scrips are called "cursives".

MegA 17 Dec 2005 (sorry, my "de"-account doesnt work here and i couldnt create an "en"-account)