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:

• 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. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4007, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4007.pdf
• 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, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4055, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4055.pdf
• G. Hosszú: Comments on encoding the Rovas scripts. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, May 22, 2011, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4076, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4076.pdf
• G. Hosszú: Issues of encoding the Rovas scripts. National Body Contribution for consideration by UTC and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, May 25, 2011, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4080, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4080.pdf

References

• Vékony, Gábor (1987): Spätvölkerwanderungszeitliche Kerbinschriften im Karpatenbecken. In: Acta Acheologica Hungarica. Vol. 39, 211-256.
• Rovas Writing Home Page: http://rovasirashonlap.fw.hu
• Rovas Info: http://rovas.info