About Russian cursive
By Natasha on September 11, 2014 in Russian Language 101 Watch our video and learn about Russian cursive with us!Every child in Russia learns how to write in cursive. They complete a lot of practice sheets to perfect their writing. Here is one of the practice sheets:The result that school children strive to achieve looks like this:However, when kids grow up, they all develop their own writing styles, and their cursive letters no longer have perfect connecting lines and curves.Here is what my handwriting looks like today:As you see, I don’t connect many of my letters, and when I do, I no longer follow the rules I had learned at school.Because people end up having their own handwriting styles, it is difficult to decipher some adults’ handwriting. Russian medical doctors are notorious for having the worst handwriting.Russian cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of earlier Cyrillic tachygraphy, and re-shaped under the influence of contemporary Latin-based cursives.Unlike English cursive, however, the Russian cursive system is not considered a “formal” style of writing. In fact, it is standard practice for Russians to write in cursive almost exclusively.That’s why it is important to learn how to write in cursive in Russian. I hope that you found this lesson on cursive writing in Russian language helpful!
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Together until Egyptian writing disappeared altogether.Russian CursiveRussian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is not too dissimilar from the Latin alphabet. Every once in a while, people on the internet find an example of Russian cursive and make jokes about how illegible it is, with its impenetrable loops that make it look like someone was just scribbling. These examples, however, are just bad handwriting. Russian cursive is actually not too far off from English cursive, as many of the letters look the same, even when they don’t look the same in non-cursive letters. The lowercase Russian т, for example, ends up looking more like the Latin m. Cursive is still taught in schools in Russia, and there don’t seem to be many fears about its disappearance soon.Greek CursiveGreek has been around for a long time, and the writing style has changed several times. Before the ninth century, there were two primary variants: uncial and cursive. Uncial was similar to stone inscriptions and comprised disconnected capital letters. It was primarily used in official book manuscripts. Private writing would instead be done in cursive, which had connected, slanted letters.In the mid-ninth century, a new writing system evolved: minuscule. It was based on the earlier cursive, and it predates the Carolingian minuscule. Like cursive, minuscule has a number of ligatures that joins letters together in writing. Eventually, minuscule was mixed with uncial, with the uncial being used as capital letters and the minuscule used as lower case. In the 1,000 years since then, the letters have continued to evolve, and the most modern standard is the monotonic orthography, which took hold in the late 20th century.Chinese CursiveThe right side is an example of the left’s symbols written in cursive.Chinese languages don’t use an alphabet, but instead a logographic system where each symbol is a
