Editing Old Hungarian script (section)

=== Medieval Hungary ===
[[File:Rovasmap 9th century.jpg|thumb|300px|The area of Rovas script usage in the 9th and 10th centuries]]
[[File:Nikolsburg.gif|right|thumb|The alphabet of [[Mikulov|Nikolsburg]], 1483]]
Epigraphic evidence for the use of the Old Hungarian script in medieval Hungary dates to the 10th century, for example, from [[Homokmégy]].<ref name="homokmegy">István Fodor – György Diószegi – László Legeza: ''Őseink nyomában''. (On the scent of our ancestors) – Magyar Könyvklub-Helikon Kiadó, Budapest, 1996. {{ISBN|963-208-400-4}} (Page 82)</ref> The latter inscription was found on a fragment of a [[quiver]] made of bone. Although there have been several attempts to interpret it, the meaning of it is still unclear.

In 1000, with the coronation of [[Stephen I of Hungary]], Hungary (previously an alliance of mostly nomadic tribes) became a [[Kingdom of Hungary|kingdom]]. The [[Latin alphabet]] was adopted as official script; however, Old Hungarian continued to be used in the vernacular.

The runic script was first mentioned in the 13th century Chronicle of [[Simon of Kéza]],<ref name="SimonKeza">Dóra Tóth-Károly Bera: ''Honfoglalás és őstörténet''. Aquila, Budapest, 1996. {{ISBN|963-8276-96-7}}</ref> where he stated that the [[Székelys]] may use the script of the [[Bulaqs|Blaks]].<ref>Bodor, György: ''A blakok''. In: Viktor Szombathy and [[Gyula László]] (eds.), ''Magyarrá lett keleti népek.'' Budapest, 1988, pp. 56–60.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://epa.oszk.hu/00000/00010/00048/pdf/EPA00010_hsr_2013_2.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-11-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114233641/http://epa.oszk.hu/00000/00010/00048/pdf/EPA00010_hsr_2013_2.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-14 }}</ref><ref name="Ervin">{{citation|author=Láczay Ervin|title=A honfoglaláskori erdélyi blak, vagy bulák nép török eredete|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/05900/05927/05927.pdf|journal=Acta Historica Hungarica Turiciensia|pages=161–177|year=2005|isbn=9639349100}}</ref> [[Johannes de Thurocz|Johannes Thuróczy]] wrote in the [[Chronica Hungarorum]] that the [[Székelys]] did not forget the [[Scythians|Scythian]] letters and these are engraved on sticks by carving.<ref name="thuroczykronika.atw.hu">''Johannes Thuróczy: Chronica Hungarorum'' http://thuroczykronika.atw.hu/pdf/Thuroczy.pdf</ref>

{{Blockquote|''There were still three thousand Huns who fled the battle of Crimhild, who fearing from the western nations, they remained on the cliff field until the time of Árpád, and they did not call themselves Huns, but Szekelys. These Szekelys were the remains of the Huns, who when they learned that the Hungarians had returned to Pannonia for the second time, went to the returnees on the border of Ruthenia and conquered Pannonia together, but not on the Pannonian plane, they were granted estates in the mountainous borderlands together with the [[Bulaqs|Blackis]], where mingling with the [[Bulaqs|Blackis]] it is said they used their letters.''|[[Simon of Kéza]]: ''[[Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum]]''<ref>''Simon of Kéza: Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum'' https://mek.oszk.hu/02200/02249/02249.htm</ref>}}

{{Blockquote|''It is said that in addition to the Huns who escorted Csaba, from the same nation, three thousand more people retreating, cut themselves out of the said battle, remained in Pannonia, and first established themself in a camp called Csigla's Field. They were afraid of the Western nations which they harassed in Attila's life, and they marched to Transylvania, the frontier of the Pannonian landscape, and they did not call themselves Huns or Hungarians, but Siculus, in their own word Székelys, so that they would not know that they are the remnants of the Huns or Hungarians. In our time, no one doubts, that the Székelys are the remnants of the Huns who first came to Pannonia, and because their people do not seem to have been mixed with foreign blood since then, they are also more strict in their morals, they also differ from other Hungarians in the division of lands. They have not yet forgotten the Scythian letters, and these are not inked on paper, but engraved on sticks skillfully, in the way of the carving. They later grew into not insignificant people, and when the Hungarians came to Pannonia again from Scythia, they went to Ruthenia in front of them with great joy, as soon as the news of their coming came to them. When the Hungarians took possession of Pannonia again, at the division of the country, with the consent of the Hungarians, these Székelys were given the part of the country that they had already chosen as their place of residence.''|[[Johannes de Thurocz|Johannes Thuróczy]]: ''[[Chronica Hungarorum]]''<ref name="thuroczykronika.atw.hu">''Johannes Thuróczy: Chronica Hungarorum'' http://thuroczykronika.atw.hu/pdf/Thuroczy.pdf</ref>}}