Editing Old Hungarian script (section)

{{short description|Alphabetic writing system used by the Hungarians primarily in the Middle Ages}}
{{For|an outline of this language's history|Old Hungarian language}}
{{Infobox Writing system
| name        = Old Hungarian script
| altname     = {{Script|Hung|𐲥𐳋𐳓𐳉𐳗-𐲘𐳀𐳎𐳀𐳢 𐲢𐳛𐳮𐳁𐳤}}<br />{{lang|hu|Székely-magyar rovás}}
| languages   = [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]
| time        = Attested from 10th century. Marginal use into the 17th century, revived in the 20th.
| type        = [[Alphabet]]
| fam1        = [[Old Turkic script]]
| iso15924    = Hung
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10C80.pdf U+10C80–U+10CFF]
| sample      = Szekely-Hungarian Rovas.svg
| imagesize   = 150px
}}
{{Contains special characters|Old Hungarian}}

The '''Old Hungarian script''' or '''Hungarian runes''' ({{langx|hu|Székely-magyar rovás}}, 'székely-magyar runiform', or {{lang|hu|rovásírás}}) is an [[alphabet]]ic [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12168r-n4268r-oldhungarian.pdf|title=Consolidated proposal for encoding the Old Hungarian script in the UCS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731021935/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12168r-n4268r-oldhungarian.pdf|archive-date=2015-07-31}}</ref> The Old Hungarian script is a child system of the [[Old Turkic alphabet]].

The [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]] [[Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin|settled the Carpathian Basin]] in 895. After the establishment of the [[Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1526)|Christian Hungarian kingdom]], the old writing system was partly forced out of use during the rule of [[Stephen I of Hungary|King Stephen]], and the [[Latin alphabet]] was adopted. However, among some professions (e.g. shepherds who used a "rovás-stick" to officially track the number of animals) and in [[Transylvania]], the script has remained in use by the [[Székelys|Székely]] Magyars, giving its Hungarian name {{lang|hu|(székely) rovásírás}}. The writing could also be found in churches, such as that in the commune of [[Atid]].

Its English name in the [[ISO 15924]] standard is Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/codechanges.html|publisher=ISO 15924|title=ISO 15924/RA Notice of Changes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030003752/http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/codechanges.html|archive-date=2012-10-30}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rovas.info/images/stories/downloads/hung-176-code%20request%20for%20rovas%2020121020.pdf Code request for the Rovas script in ISO 15924 (2012-10-20)]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=Btphelps |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>