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  2. Final form - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] A final form of these letters is also called pshuta (פשוטה ‎, meaning extended or plain). The letter Mem also had a descender 𐡌 ‎, however, its current final form ם ‎ was a variant of מ ‎ used interchangeably in all positions. The standardization is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 2b-3a and ...

  3. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase letter z: In the cursive style used in the United States and most Australian states (excluding South Australia), this letter is written as an ezh (ʒ). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The parts of Europe that add a crossbar to the uppercase Z may also use it the lowercase version.

  4. Russian cursive - Wikipedia

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    A ukase written in the 17th-century Russian chancery cursive. The Russian (and Cyrillic in general) cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of the earlier Cyrillic tachygraphic writing (ско́ропись, skoropis, "rapid or running script"), which in turn was the 14th–17th-century chancery hand of the earlier Cyrillic bookhand scripts (called ustav and poluustav).

  5. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This is because before the 1918 reform, any word ending with a non-palatalized consonant was written with a final Ъ — e.g., pre-1918 вотъ vs. post-reform вот. The reform eliminated the use of Ъ in this context, leaving it the least common letter in the Russian alphabet. 'Z' : 0.074%

  6. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.

  7. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode .

  8. Should schools still teach cursive in the digital age?

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    Cursive lessons forge important pathways that benefit all types of learning “To the human brain, the act of handwriting is very different from punching letters on a keyboard.

  9. Tse (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    It is used both in native Slavic words (and corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *k in certain positions) and in borrowed words: as a match for the Latin c in words of Latin origin, such as цирк (circus), центр (centre), for the German z and tz (which in turn both came from the High German consonant shift), in words borrowed from German ...