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Old Hungarian

alphabetic writing system used by the Hungarians from the Middle Ages

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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

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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.