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  2. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive (also known as joined-up writing [1] [2]) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal ...

  3. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The uppercase letter J: In Germany, this letter is often written with a long stroke to the left at the top. This is to distinguish it from the capital letter "I". The uppercase letter S: In Japan, this letter is often written with a single serif added to the end of the stroke. The uppercase letter Z: This letter is usually written with three ...

  4. Zaner-Bloser (teaching script) - Wikipedia

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    Detail from Zaner's 1896 article: The Line of Direction in Writing [3] A major factor contributing to the development of the Zaner-Bloser teaching script was Zaner's study of the body movements required to create the form of cursive letters when using the 'muscular arm method' of handwriting – such as the Palmer Method – which was prevalent in the United States from the late 19th century.

  5. Albanian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It used digraphs for unique sounds of the Albanian language. It resembles the current alphabet with the differences being the use of ch for ç, c for q, ts for c, é for e, e for ë, gh for gj, gn for nj, and z/zh have swapped places with x/xh. Agimi, developed by the Agimi ("Dawn") Literary Society in 1901, and spearheaded by Ndre Mjeda. It ...

  6. Cursive forms of the International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Early specifications for the International Phonetic Alphabet included cursive forms of the letters designed for use in manuscripts and when taking field notes. However, the 1999 Handbook of the International Phonetic Association said: There are cursive forms of IPA symbols, but it is doubtful if these are much in use today.

  7. Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in ... - AOL

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    Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

  8. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian cursive writing. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting script based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States.

  9. Swedish alphabet - Wikipedia

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    c /k/, /s/ /s/ before front vowels e i y (not used before ä ö ), otherwise /k/ (not used before å ). The letter c alone is used only in loanwords (usually in the /s/ value) and proper names, but ck is a normal representation for /kː/ after a short vowel (as in English and German). ch /ɧ/, /ɕ/ In loanwords.