Editing Old Hungarian script (section)

== Features ==
Old Hungarian letters were usually written from right to left on sticks.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Later, in Transylvania, they appeared on several media. Writings on walls also were right to left{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} and not [[boustrophedon]] style (alternating direction right to left and then left to right).

[[File:1-1000 Rovásszámok.svg|thumb|Hungarian numerals]]

The numbers are almost the same as the Roman, [[Etruscan numerals|Etruscan]], and [[Chuvash numerals]]. Numbers of livestock were carved on tally sticks and the sticks were then cut in two lengthwise to avoid later disputes.

{| class="wikitable"
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! 6
! 7
! 8
! 9
! 10
! 50
! 100
! 500
! 1000
|-
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 1.svg|8px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 2.svg|12px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 3.svg|14px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 4.svg|16px]]
! [[image:5 (rovásbetű).svg|12px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 6 RTL.svg|17px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 7 RTL.svg|18px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 8 RTL.svg|20px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 9 RTL.svg|22px]]
! [[image:ROVAS NUMERAL 10.svg|14px]]
! [[image:50 (rovásbetű).svg|12px]]
! [[image:100 (rovásbetű).svg|12px]]
! [[image:Rovas 500.svg|12px]]
! [[image:1000 (rovásbetű).svg|12px]]
|-
! {{Script|Hung|𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳺𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳺𐳺𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳻}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳻𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳻𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳻𐳺𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳻𐳺𐳺𐳺𐳺}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳼}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳽}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳾}}
! {{Script|Hung|̲𐳽}}
! {{Script|Hung|𐳿}}
|}

* [[Ligature (writing)|Ligatures]] are common. (''Note'': the Hungarian runic script employed a number of ligatures. In some cases, an entire word was written with a single sign similar to a [[bind rune]].) The Unicode standard supports ligatures explicitly by using the zero width joiner between the two characters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12168r-n4268r-oldhungarian.pdf#page=7|title=True Ligatures|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731021935/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12168r-n4268r-oldhungarian.pdf#page=7|archive-date=2015-07-31}}</ref>
* There are no lower or upper case letters, but the first letter of a proper name was often written a bit larger. Though the Unicode standard has upper and lowercase letters, which are the same in shape, the difference is only their size.
* The writing system did not always mark vowels (similar to many Asian writing systems). The rules for vowel inclusion were as follows:
** If there are two vowels side by side, both have to be written, unless the second could be readily determined.
** The vowels have to be written if their omission created ambiguity. (Example: {{lang|hu|krk}} – {{script|Hung|𐳓𐳢𐳓}} can be interpreted as {{lang|hu|kerék}} – {{Script|Hung|𐳓𐳉𐳢𐳋𐳓}} (wheel) and {{lang|hu|kerek}} – {{Script|Hung|𐳓𐳉𐳢𐳉𐳓}} (rounded), thus the writer had to include the vowels to differentiate the intended words.)
** The vowel at the end of the word must be written.
* Sometimes, especially when writing consonant clusters, a consonant was omitted. This is a phonologic process, with the script reflecting the exact surface realization.