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| − | There are at least three known scripts which were used by Hungarians during their history.<ref>Hosszú, Gábor (2011): Heritage of Scribes. The Rovas Scripts’ Relations to Eurasian Writing Systems. First edition. Budapest, ISBN 978-963-88437-4-6</ref> Their scripts are called Rovas Scripts. The comprehensive view of the Rovas alphabets was introduced first at the end of the twentieth century by the archaeologist-historian Gábor Vékony.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (1987): Későnépvándorláskori rovásfeliratok a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas inscriptions from the Late Migration Period in the Carpathian Basin]. Szombathely-Budapest: Életünk szerkesztősége. ISBN 978-963-025-132-7</ref> He gave transcriptions of [[Carpathian Basin Rovas]] and [[Steppean Rovas]] inscriptions by using Rovas alphabets cognate to each other.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (2004): A székely írás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története [The Relics, Relations and the History of the Szekely Script]. Budapest: Nap Kiadó. ISBN 963 9402 45 1</ref> The close relation of Carpathian Basin Rovas to [[Szekely-Hungarian Rovas]] has been shown by Gyula Németh in 1932.<ref>Németh, Gyula (1932): A nagyszentmiklósi kincs feliratai [The inscriptions of the Nagyszentmiklós treasure], In: Magyar Nyelv [Hungarian Language]. Vol. XXVIII, No. 3-6, 1932, pp. 65-85 and 129-139</ref> Moreover, according to the archaeologist-historian István Erdélyi the Steppean Rovas is related to Carpathian Basin Rovas and Szekely-Hungarian Rovas.<ref>Erdélyi, István (1982): Az avarság és Kelet a régészeti források tükrében [The Avars and the East in the mirror of the archaeological sources]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó [Publisher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences], ISBN 963 05 2705 7</ref> | + | There are at least three known scripts which were used by [[Hungarian]]s during their history.<ref>Hosszú, Gábor (2011): Heritage of Scribes. The Rovas Scripts’ Relations to Eurasian Writing Systems. First edition. Budapest, ISBN 978-963-88437-4-6</ref> Their scripts are called Rovas Scripts. The comprehensive view of the Rovas alphabets was introduced first at the end of the twentieth century by the archaeologist-historian Gábor Vékony.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (1987): Későnépvándorláskori rovásfeliratok a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas inscriptions from the Late Migration Period in the Carpathian Basin]. Szombathely-Budapest: Életünk szerkesztősége. ISBN 978-963-025-132-7</ref> He gave transcriptions of [[Carpathian Basin Rovas]] and [[Steppean Rovas]] inscriptions by using Rovas alphabets cognate to each other.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (2004): A székely írás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története [The Relics, Relations and the History of the Szekely Script]. Budapest: Nap Kiadó. ISBN 963 9402 45 1</ref> The close relation of Carpathian Basin Rovas to [[Szekely-Hungarian Rovas]] has been shown by Gyula Németh in 1932.<ref>Németh, Gyula (1932): A nagyszentmiklósi kincs feliratai [The inscriptions of the Nagyszentmiklós treasure], In: Magyar Nyelv [Hungarian Language]. Vol. XXVIII, No. 3-6, 1932, pp. 65-85 and 129-139</ref> Moreover, according to the archaeologist-historian István Erdélyi the Steppean Rovas is related to Carpathian Basin Rovas and Szekely-Hungarian Rovas.<ref>Erdélyi, István (1982): Az avarság és Kelet a régészeti források tükrében [The Avars and the East in the mirror of the archaeological sources]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó [Publisher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences], ISBN 963 05 2705 7</ref> |
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| | ==The members of Rovas Script Family== | | ==The members of Rovas Script Family== |
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| | * '''Klára Sándor''' linguist (PhD)<ref>Sándor Klára (1992a, ed.), Rovásírás a Kárpát-medencében. Library of the Hungarian Ancient History 4. Szeged: József Attila University of Sciences, Department of Altayistics</ref> | | * '''Klára Sándor''' linguist (PhD)<ref>Sándor Klára (1992a, ed.), Rovásírás a Kárpát-medencében. Library of the Hungarian Ancient History 4. Szeged: József Attila University of Sciences, Department of Altayistics</ref> |
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| − | * The comprehensive view of the Rovas alphabets was introduced first at the end of the twentieth century by the archaeologist-historian '''Gábor Vékony''' (1944-2004, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (1987): Későnépvándorláskori rovásfeliratok a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas inscriptions from the Late Migration Period in the Carpathian Basin]. Szombathely-Budapest: Életünk szerkesztősége. ISBN 978-963-025-132-7</ref> He gave transcriptions of CBR and KR inscriptions by using Rovas alphabets cognate to each other.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (2004): A székely írás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története [The Relics, Relations and the History of the Szekely Script]. Budapest: Nap Kiadó. ISBN 963 9402 45 1</ref> | + | * The comprehensive view of the Rovas alphabets was introduced first at the end of the twentieth century by the archaeologist-historian '''Gábor Vékony''' (1944-2004) PhD, Assoc. Prof. of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (1987): Későnépvándorláskori rovásfeliratok a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas inscriptions from the Late Migration Period in the Carpathian Basin]. Szombathely-Budapest: Életünk szerkesztősége. ISBN 978-963-025-132-7</ref> He gave transcriptions of CBR and KR inscriptions by using Rovas alphabets cognate to each other.<ref>Vékony, Gábor (2004): A székely írás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története [The Relics, Relations and the History of the Szekely Script]. Budapest: Nap Kiadó. ISBN 963 9402 45 1</ref> |
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| | ** Used continuously from the 8th or 9th century. | | ** Used continuously from the 8th or 9th century. |
| − | ** Popular contemporary writing as alternative for Latin based script | + | ** Popular contemporary writing as alternative for Latin-based script |
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| | * Rovaspedia: http://wiki.rovas.info/index.php/Rovas_Script_Family | | * Rovaspedia: http://wiki.rovas.info/index.php/Rovas_Script_Family |
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| − | See detailed references on pages of [[Carpathian Basin Rovas]], [[Steppean Rovas]], [[Szekely-Hungarian Rovas]] | + | See detailed references on pages of [[Carpathian Basin Rovas]], and [[Steppean Rovas]] |
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| | ==Unicode proposals== | | ==Unicode proposals== |
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| − | [[Category:Writing systems]][[Category:Alphabets]][[Category:Rovas scripts]] | + | [[Category:Writing Systems]][[Category:Alphabets]][[Category:Rovas Scripts]] |