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The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible. [1] The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic ...
Secretary script has a somewhat haphazard appearance and its forms of the letters a , g , r , and s are unique, unlike any forms in any other English script. The legacy of these English cursive Gothic forms survived in common use as late as the 18th century in the court hand used for some legal records.
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives.
Gothic script, typeface, letters, text or font may refer to: Blackletter an ornate calligraphic style originating in Western Europe. (Includes "Early Gothic", "Old English", Textura/Textualis, Cursiva and others.) Fraktur, a form of Blackletter; Schwabacher, a form of Blackletter; Gothic alphabet, the Greek-derived writing system of the Gothic ...
English ladies were often taught an "Italian hand", suitable for the occasional writing that they were expected to do. [4] Grace Ioppolo notes [ 2 ] that the convention in writing the texts of dramas was to write act and scene settings, characters' names and stage directions in italic, and the dialogue in secretary hand.
The runic alphabet used to write Old English before the introduction of the Latin alphabet. Old English was first written in runes, using the futhorc—a rune set derived from the Germanic 24-character elder futhark, extended by
Several famous English examples mix runes and Roman script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four Evangelists are given in Latin written in runes, but "LUKAS" is in Roman script. The coffin is also an example of an object created at the ...
The Gothic letter is transliterated with the Latin ligature of the same name, ƕ, which was introduced by Wilhelm Braune in the 1882 edition of Gotische Grammatik [3], as suggested in a review of the 1880 edition by Hermann Collitz [4], to replace the digraph hv which was formerly used to express the phoneme, e.g. by Migne (vol. 18) in the 1860s.