pinkmint-lang:aegean-okra:Old Hungarian AlphabetThe ancient Hungarians, or Magyars as they call them
pinkmint-lang:aegean-okra:Old Hungarian AlphabetThe ancient Hungarians, or Magyars as they call themselves, had a distinctive writing system called rovásírás (rovás for short), or Old Hungarian script in scholarly circles. This script is also called “Hungarian runes” due to the angular shape of its letters, but it is not related in any way to Germanic Futhark. Instead it is most likely related to Turkic Runes employed by Turkic tribes in southern Siberia, which the Magyars encountered and interacted with in their migration from Central Asia to Europe.The oldest rune-shaped inscription in Hungary dates from the 9th and 10th centuries CE, but these earliest texts are poorly understood and maybe even not in the Hungarian language but perhaps in an unidentified Turkic dialect. The first mention of the Old Hungarian script occurred in the late 13th century CE in a Latin chronicle of the Hungarians written by Simon de Kéza which mentions the rovás of the Székelys, a subgroup of the Magyar that inhabited Transylvania instead of the Carpathian basin. The earliest Old Hungarian list of all letters in an alphabet, appears in a printed book from the palace library of the city of Nikolsburg and dates to 1483.After the establishment of the Christian Hungarian kingdom the script became less used and slowly forgotten because the Latin alphabet was adopted and forced to use. However, only a small layer of the society could use the Latin alphabet, thus the Hungarian runic script was only used among village people in medieval times. In remote parts of Transylvania, however, the runes remained in permanent use and were taught at schools until the 18th century. They were used by the Székler Magyars in Hungary until the 11th century. In remote parts of Transylvania however, the runes were still used up until the 1850s. During the 20th century there was a revival of interest in the alphabet.Sources x x x x dang that is lovely -- source link