You wonder if any other languages have their own versions of cursive, amirite?

The French lamguage uses similar letters as English so I would beleive theirs would be similar to ours.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*Language, stupid phone keyboard. *Believe, stupid phone keyboard.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you mean other alphabets, not languages. Hebrew has block letters as well as cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant both. Idk if people writing in other latin languages (Spanish, French, etc.) used cursive or not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Apparently they don't; I looked on wikipedia, and English is the only western European language that was listed as having cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

uh... norwegian, danish and swedish also have cursive

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Uh, yes they do. I went to Hebrew school. I think I would know. They technically call it "script" but it's basically the same idea as cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yes, so its not only English as BreakfastFan said.. + we call it cursive(kursiv) :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha yeah they called it script in Hebrew school...but script and cursive are the same thing

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Of course they do, why wouldn't they? That's like saying "You wonder if other languages have alphabets".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not all languages have alphabets though... Like a lot of Asian languages have characters, not alphabets.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I bet the characters have alphabets as well, they can´t just have a bunch of letters/characters, now can they? They don't need to be literal alphabets, I just meant the concept.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@834117 (Nacklefoodle): Gosh! It's "an alphabet" Nacklefoodle was correct the first time they commented. Then you used it incorrectly

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Even if they don't, that's not my point, it's just a bad analogy based on some false knowledge.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But they don't, idiot. They don't all have cursive. Stop making assumptions.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Dumbass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm assuming any language using the Latin alphabet would have cursive...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I looked on wikipedia, and English is the only western European language that was listed as having cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ಠ_ಠ http://www.sprachwissenschaft.uni-jena.de/germsprach_multimedia/Downloads/meineke/Alphabet_s_C3_BCtterlin-width-694-height-431.gif

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Huh. Surprisingly enough, that is the first error I have ever found on Wikipedia. And it's not even really an error, just an omission.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Arabic has print and cursive, so yes, I'm guessing there are other languages that have cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hebrew has cursive. :p

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know Egyptian hieroglyphics have cursive because on the rosetta stone there was Greek, Egyptian, and Egyptian cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You said Egyptian twice

by Anonymous 13 years ago

One was Egyptian, and one was Egyptian cursive. This whole thread is about the difference between regular and cursive, so I felt it would be helpful to say both.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I had assumed you meant the "Cursive" to be an all encompassing term going over the other things, so you wouldnt need to add Cursive on the 2 that dont have it following them

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hes right. he could of meant greek cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Alfabetos, no idiomas, inteligentes... Toda esto podría ser escrito en cursiva. Y esta en español, ¿verdad? Alphabets, not languages, smartasses... The section I just wrote was written in spanish, and you can use cursive with it, can't you?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@834408 (Anonymous): I was actually talking about both alphabets and languages. It was probably poorly worded, but I was focusing more on if other latin languages (like spanish) used cursive too, or if it was just an english phenomenon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I believe Russian is usually done in cursive when handwritten. I've seen books on Chinese cursive, but I'm not sure if people actually write that way or if it's basically for calligraphy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh yeah, and there was a Roman cursive for Latin and Ancient Greek cursive... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive I'm thinking it's not that uncommon.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

chinese has cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hiragana? With a brush, that is.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you really need to specify between language and alphabet because in all languages that use the latin alphabet (ABCDEF...) have cursive. you want to know if other alphabets have it, like russian. they use a cyrillic alphabet. moron.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks for restating things that were said in the conversations above, it was really helpful.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In Hebrew school, instead of making us write the complicated block letters, they taught us Hebrew script. So yes, other languages do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Arabic has a font that can be an equivalent of the English cursive font. We're taught that, and it looks all fancy and such. So, yeah, other languages do have their version of cursive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago