Editing Old Permic script (section)

==Significance==
[[Image:Wikipedia-logo-kv.png|thumb|Wikipedia logo in Old Permic and Cyrillic script|right]]
The Abur inscriptions are among the oldest relics of the [[Uralic languages]]. Only one of them has earlier documents: [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], which had been written using the [[Old Hungarian script]] first before the Latin script was used after 1000.

For comparison, an isolated [[Birch bark letter no. 292|birch bark letter]], found in [[Novgorod]] and written in [[Cyrillic]] in a [[Finnic languages|Finnic language]], has been dated to the beginning of the 13th century and [[Finnish language|Finnish]] as a written language [[Mikael Agricola|appeared only]] after the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] in 1543.