Editing Old Hungarian script (section)

=== Origins ===
The precise date or origin of the script is unknown.
[[File:Campagna-bronz-fokostarto.jpg|right|thumb|Axe socket found near Campagna.]]

Origins of the Turkic scripts are uncertain. According to some opinions, ancient Turkic runes descend from primaeval Turkic graphic logograms.<ref>Franz Altheim: Geschichte der Hunnen, vol. 1, p. 118</ref>
Linguist [[András Róna-Tas]] derives Old Hungarian from the [[Old Turkic script]],<ref>Róna-Tas (1987, 1988)</ref> itself recorded in inscriptions dating from {{circa|AD 720}}. 
Speakers of [[Proto-Hungarian]] would have come into contact with Turkic peoples during the 7th or 8th century, in the context of the [[Turkic expansion]], as is also evidenced by numerous Turkic loanwords in Proto-Hungarian.

All the letters but one for sounds which were shared by Turkic and Ancient Hungarian can be related to their Old Turkic counterparts. Most of the missing characters were derived by script internal extensions, rather than borrowings, but a small number of characters seem to derive from Greek, such as [[File:F (rovásbetű).svg|15px|eF]] 'eF'.<ref name="greek_origin">''Új Magyar Lexikon'' (New Hungarian Encyclopaedia) – Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1962. (Volume 5) {{ISBN|963-05-2808-8}}</ref>

The modern Hungarian term for this script (coined in the 19th century), {{lang|hu|rovás}}, derives from the verb {{lang|hu|róni}} ('to score') which is derived from old [[Uralic languages|Uralic]], general Hungarian terminology describing the technique of writing ({{lang|hu|írni}} 'to write', {{lang|hu|betű}} 'letter', {{lang|hu|bicska}} 'knife, also: for carving letters') derive from Turkic,<ref name="turkic_ling_evidence">András Róna-Tas ''A magyar írásbeliség török eredetéhez'' (In: Klára Sándor (ed.) ''Rovás és Rovásírás'' p.9–14 — Szeged, 1992, {{ISBN|963-481-885-4}})</ref> which further supports transmission via Turkic alphabets.