Russian cursive

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The standard Russian Cyrillic cursive alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters.
The standard Russian Cyrillic cursive alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters.

Russian cursive is the handwritten form of the modern Russian language, used instead of the block letters seen in printed material. Some letters look much like Latin/Roman cursive letters, but most have different sounds. In addition, Russian italics for the lowercase letters are often based on Russian cursive (such as lowercase Т, which looks like Latin m). Most handwritten Russian, especially personal letters and schoolwork, uses the cursive alphabet due to the fact that it is much faster to write than block letters if learned correctly. In Russian schools, most children are taught by first grade how to write using this script.

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[edit] History

A note in cursive by Peter I (transcription)
A note in cursive by Peter I (transcription)

The cursive form first appeared late-Middle Ages, succeeding the current ustav or "block letter" writing.[1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Ziegler. Short history of the Russian language. Lomonosov University. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.

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