Hebrew script
The Hebrew cursive script ( Hebrew כתב רהוט, k e tav rahut = "flowing script") is a special form of the Hebrew script . It goes back to Ashkenazi script, which u. a. were in use in Germany and Poland . From 1713 to 1715 a manual for business correspondence in Hebrew was published in Amsterdam , printed in cursive letters specially cut for this purpose.
The cursive script is used for Yiddish and Hebrew and, like the square script, has 22 consonant characters, with five special end forms for the letters Kaph , Mem , Nun , Pe and Tzade . Vowel signs are not used.
Hebrew cursive is sometimes referred to as Hebrew cursive script ; this designation is, at least in modern usage, misleading insofar as, in contrast to German italics (e.g. original fonts ) or Arabic script, the letters are usually not connected within a word, but remain isolated. Connected letters are not the only characteristic of italics, however.
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Web links
- Mark Lidzbarsky: The Hebrew Alphabet - Cursive Script. In: Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, 1906, pp. 439-454 .
- Hebrew (עברית). In: Omniglot. (English).
Footnotes
- ↑ Harald Haarmann : Universal history of writing. 2nd, revised edition. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-88059-955-6 , p. 318.
- ^ Moritz Steinschneider : Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century. With an Introduction on Talmud and Midrash. A historical essay. Longman et al., London 1857, p. 249 .