Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Alphabet in Kurrent 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. Danish Kurrent script ( »gotisk skrift«) from about 1800 with Æ and Ø at the end of the alphabet.
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of ...
10. Okt. 2018 · This updated handwriting resembled das lateinisches Alphabet (Latin alphabet) more closely, and is the German handwriting that is still used and taught today. Significant differences between old and new German handwriting. A point of confusion with old German handwriting is that some of its letters don’t look like their modern ...
Fraktur is a typeface based on blackletter that emerged in Germany in the 16th century and was used until 1941. Learn about its history, features, alphabet chart, sample text and links to other versions of the Latin alphabet.
Deciphering old German handwriting (Sütterlin, Kurrentschrift) While researching your German ancestors, you may come across some handwritten documents in the old German handwriting (Sütterlin, Kurrentschrift). These old German documents, e.g. civil status certificates, church records, letters or diaries, are often difficult to read.
For those of you who would like to be able to read the old German scripts that were banned by decree in Germany in 1941, it is recommendable to first master how to write these particular scripts. I have selected the “Kurrent” script, which was in common usage in 1900.
The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet : German uses letter-diacritic combinations ( Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature ( ẞ/ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)), but they do not constitute distinct letters in the alphabet.
