Kurrent is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift, Alte Deutsche Schrift ("old German script") and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms. German writers used both cursive styles, Kurrent and English cursive, in parallel: location, contents and context of the text determined which script style to use.