Steppean Rovas

The Steppean Rovas /rovaːʃ/ (other names: Khazarian Rovas, Volga-Don script, etc.) is an extinct script that was mainly used in the area of the Khazar Empire (from 6th century AD to 965) by the different constituent nations, in the Volga Bulgaria, and after the Settlement of Magyars (Hungarians) in the Carpathian Basin in the 10th century by the Hungarians, Khavars (Khazar subjects rebelled against the Khazar Khagane and than joined the Hungarians) and other joined tribes. There are known relics mainly in Turkic including Common Turkic and Ogur, and in As or Alan.

Steppean Rovas is exclusively right-to-left; there is no casing and known numerals in the known relics. It belongs to the family of the Rovas scripts, including the Carpathian Basin Rovas and the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas.

Some Steppean Rovas relics:

• Steppean Rovas relics from the Khazar Khaganate
  • Steppean Rovas word on the Kievan letter
  • Mayaki amphora inscription in Ogur
  • The Stanitsa Krivyanskoe clay flask inscription in Preossetic (As/Alan)
  • Mayatskoe Gorodishche large building inscription
• Steppean Rovas relics from the Carpathian Basin
  • Alsószentmihály inscription
  • Homokmégy-Halom inscription
• Steppean Rovas relics from Central Asia
  • The Achiktash inscription from the Talas valley in old Bashkir
  • Spindle disk of Minusinsk
• Steppean Rovas relic from the Volga Bulgaria
  • Pottery of Bilyar

Unicode

This script is not yet in the Unicode. Its latest proposal (it uses the "Khazarian Rovas" term):

• 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: Proposal for encoding the Khazarian 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 19, 2011, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3999, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3999.pdf

References

• Dienes, István (1972): A honfoglaló magyarok [Hungarians of the Landtaking Period]. Budapest.
• Dienes, István (1992): A Kalocsa környéki rovásemlékről. [About the Rovas relic from the vicinity of Kalocsa], pp. 31–40. In: Rovásírás a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas scripting in the Carpathian Basin]. In series: Library of the Hungarian Ancient History 4. Szeged: József Attila University of Sciences, Department of Altayistics. ISBN 963 481 885 4
• Vékony, Gábor (1987): Későnépvándorláskori rovásfeliratok a Kárpát-medencében [Rovas inscriptions from the Late Migration Period in the Carpathian Basin]. Szombathely-Budapest
• Róna-Tas, András (1996): A honfoglaló magyar nép [The landtaking Hungarian nation]. Bevezetés a korai Magyar történelem ismeretébe [Introduction to the knowledge of the early Hungarian history]. Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, ISBN 963 506 106 4
• Vékony, Gábor (2004): A székely rovásírás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története [The Relics, Relations and the History of the Szekely Script]. Publisher: Nap Kiadó, Budapest. ISBN 963 9402 45 1
• 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=PA144
• Rovas Writing Home Page: http://rovasirashonlap.fw.hu
• Rovas Info: http://rovas.info
• Rovaspedia: http://wiki.rovas.info/index.php/Steppean_Rovas