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Scriptio continua
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<p><i>Scriptio continua</i> (<a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> for 'continuous script'), also known as <i>scriptura continua</i> or <i>scripta continua</i>, is a style of writing without <a href="/facts/Space_(punctuation)/0Um7Qfkq">spaces</a> or <a href="/facts/Word_divider/3kM5CYBW">other marks</a> between the words or sentences. The form also lacks <a href="/facts/Punctuation/YsE7u4W6">punctuation</a>, <a href="/facts/Diacritic/Rw6lMzQW">diacritics</a>, or distinguished <a href="/facts/Letter_case/KQcwaUUD">letter case</a>. In the West, the oldest Greek and Latin inscriptions used <a href="/facts/Word_divider/3kM5CYBW">word dividers</a> to separate words in sentences; however, <a href="/facts/Classical_Greek/LIK7NlUh">Classical Greek</a> and late <a href="/facts/Classical_Latin/xFLyGtxs">Classical Latin</a> both employed <i>scriptio continua</i> as the norm. The <i>scriptio continua</i> is also known as Latin skeleton script. </p>