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Technically these are all still Latin leters, just that they're written in a weird way that evolved from middle-aged Gothic handwriting as opposed to Latin directly which was the case with English cursive. This style of writing, along with the print-oriented π”£π”―π”žπ”¨π”±π”²π”―, was abandoned for the Latin equivalent by the Nazis for logistical reasons in 1941.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the hickety heck is going on between lowercase R and X?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Multiple letters for "s" sounds and the rest idk lol

Edit: looks like two for "t" sounds as well. Not sure how they're supposed to sound though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure about the first and second "s"es, but the third is an "ß" (es and zet) that is still used for a sharp s sound following a long vowel... it's still in use, for example in "Straße" (street). The second "t" is a "tz" which is also atill in use in words like Katze (cat).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The first one is a long s, the second is the "normal" s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I expected ß but then the extra letters kept going lol