Szekely-Hungarian Rovas

The Szekely-Hungarian Rovas is a contemporary, albeit not an official writing system of the Hungarians (Magyar). It was developed about 800, and it was continuously used during the whole history of Hungary.

The Szekely-Hungarian Rovas belongs to the family of the Rovas scripts and one of the Hungarian scripts.

Unicode

This script is not yet in the Unicode. The latest proposal and some contributions of the Hungarian Standard Body:

• Dr. Gábor Hosszú (Hungarian Standards Institute):Code chart font for Rovas block, National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, 2012-02-06
• Dr. Hosszú, Gábor (Hungarian Standards Institute) Proposal for encoding the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas, Carpathian Basin Rovas and Khazarian Rovas scripts into the Rovas block in the SMP of the UCS. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, 2011. December 15
• G. Hosszú: Revised proposal for encoding the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas script in the SMP of the UCS. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, January 21, 2011, revised: May 21, 2011, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set
• G. Hosszú: Response to the Ad-hoc Report N4110 about the Rovas scripts. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, July 5, 2011
• G. Hosszú: Notes on the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas script. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, May 15, 2011
• G. Hosszú: Comments on encoding the Rovas scripts. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, May 22, 2011
• G. Hosszú: Issues of encoding the Rovas scripts. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, May 25, 2011

References

• Vékony, Gábor (1987): Spätvölkerwanderungszeitliche Kerbinschriften im Karpatenbecken. In: Acta Acheologica Hungarica. Vol. 39, 211-256.
• Szekely-Hungarian Rovas in the RovasPedia: http://wiki.rovas.info/index.php/Szekely-Hungarian_Rovas
• Gábor Hosszú (2011): Heritage of Scribes. The Relation of Rovas Scripts to Eurasian Writing Systems. First edition. Budapest: Rovas Foundation, ISBN 978-963-88437-4-6, fully available from Google Books at http://books.google.hu/books?id=TyK8azCqC34C&pg=PA177
• Rovas Writing Home Page: http://rovasirashonlap.fw.hu
• Rovas Info: http://rovas.info
• Rovaspedia: http://wiki.rovas.info/index.php/Szekely-Hungarian_Rovas