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Jan 23, 2021 · Making sense of German historical records can be tricky because the old German Cursive Alphabet and typefaces kept changing. See why! See why genealogists and casual readers are pulling their hair out!
While the Council for German Orthography considers ä, ö, ü, ß distinct letters, disagreement on how to categorize and count them has led to a dispute over the exact number of letters the German alphabet has, the number ranging between 26 (considering special letters as variants of a, o, u, s ) and 30 (counting all special letters separately).
Fraktur is a style of calligraphy that emerged during the 16th century in Germany. It is based on the blackletter style of writing that developed in France in the 12th century, and became the standard way to write in much of Europe. The first Fraktur typeface was designed by Hieronymus Andreae and commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor ...
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.
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.
Although these scripts are based on the Latin alphabet, many of the individual letters may appear to the untrained eye as unique as the letters of the Russian or Arabic alphabets. Old German Script was used widely until the end of World War II when Latin forms became the accepted standard for handwriting and printing.
I help you to read and understand your old German letters and correspondence, written in old German script like Kurrent, Fraktur or Sütterlin.
