Can you write in cursive in other languages besides English?

Question

I know this might sound like a stupid question, but I honestly don't know/remember.

Answer 1

First, as you'd expect, other Romance and Germanic languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.) use cursive as we do in English.

Second, there are plenty of languages with different letters that have a cursive. Hebrew, for example, has a cursive version.

Answer 2

Yes. Other languages do have cursive scripts. I don't know all of them but I know that Cyrillic (Russian), Greek and even Chinese have them.

The cursive scripts we use in English today were basically developed by Italian scribes and merchants in the 16th century. However, the Romans and Greeks of ancient and early Christian times had been trying for centuries to develop cursive writing without any success. Archeologists can tell this by the way they rewrote some of their letters on tablets and monuments.

Actually, it's not a stupid question because most language learning books introduce you only to the block letters of a language and not its cursive writing. Also, very few Americans know any Greek, Russian or Chinese people that they can ask.

Answer 3

The French have beautiful handwriting/cursive. Kids in France start learning cursive very early in school and as a result French people in general tend to have nice handwriting, even men. I am sure there are many exceptions :)

There are some slight differences in the French Cursive when compared to the English cursive. For example the P is not completely closed in French, the s is a bit different as well. Some variation, but not a real big difference.

Well, have a good day ;)

Answer 4

Arabic only exists in semi-cursive form.

Cyrillic has its cursive form, but it's cursive forms are slightly different from language to language. Normally, in Serbian and Macedonian they stick to older form, while Russian cursive has been modernised, followed by other Ex-Soviet republics and Bulgaria.

Cursive for Latinic-based languages is more or less the same.

Hebrew also has its cursive form, but Hebrew cursive is not really cursive, it's rather "hand-written".

Devanagari script could be considered cursive.

Chinese (you can stylise the characters, but they still aren't cursive) and Tamil have no cursive form.

Thai also has no real cursive.

Answer 5

Yes, I write cursive in French.

Answer 6

My Korean teachers used to write Korean in cursive, I know it sounds impossible but the would join the characters. This would drive the students crazy especially in the beginning then later on we would do it.

Answer 7

i can write cursive in spanish. but im not good at cursive

Answer 8

Spanish and Afrikaans that I know of

Answer 9

uummm, yeah, I can write in spanish