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Old Hungarian
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alphabetic writing system used by the Hungarians from the Middle Ages
Key facts
- Script type
- Alphabet
- Period
- Attested from 10th century. Marginal use into the 17th century, revived in the 20th.
- Direction
- Right-to-left script
- Languages
- Hungarian
- Parent systems
- Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Sogdian alphabet Old Turkic script Old Hungarian script
- Iso 15924
- Hung (176) , Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic)
- Unicode alias
- Old Hungarian
- Unicode range
- U+10C80–U+10CFF
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Old Hungarian script, or Hungarian runes (Hungarian: Székely-magyar rovás, 'székely-magyar runiform', or rovásírás), is an alphabetic writing system used for writing the Hungarian language. Modern Hungarian is written using the Latin-based Hungarian alphabet. 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 script.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Old Hungarian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.