Old Hungarian alphabet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Old Hungarian alphabet


00:01:12 1 Name
00:01:35 2 History
00:01:44 2.1 Origins
00:03:48 2.2 Medieval Hungary
00:04:38 2.3 Early Modern period
00:05:32 2.4 Scholarly discussion
00:06:56 2.5 Popular revival
00:08:12 3 Epigraphy
00:09:15 4 Characters
00:11:00 5 Features
00:12:43 6 Text example
00:13:58 7 Unicode
00:14:22 8 Pre-Unicode encodings
00:15:21 9 Gallery
00:15:30 10 See also



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The Old Hungarian script (Hungarian: rovásírás, "Rovas script", "Rovash script") is an alphabetic writing system used for writing the Hungarian language. Today Hungarian is predominantly written using the Latin-based Hungarian alphabet, but the Old Hungarian script is still in use in some communities. The term "old" refers to the historical priority of the script compared with the Latin-based one. The Old Hungarian script is a child system of the Old Turkic alphabet.
The Hungarians settled the Carpathian Basin in 895. After the establishment of the Christian Hungarian kingdom, the old writing system was partly forced out of use and the Latin alphabet was adopted. However, among some professions (e.g. shepherds who used a "rovás-stick" to officially track the number of animals) and in Transylvania, the script has remained in use by the Székely Magyars, giving its Hungarian name (székely) rovásírás. The writing could also be found in churches, such as that in the commune of Atid.
Its English name in the ISO 15924 standard is Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic).