Editing Old Hungarian script (section)

=== Scholarly discussion ===
Hungarian script<ref>[[Diringer, David]]. 1947. ''The Alphabet. A Key to the History of Mankind.'' London: Hutchinson's Scientific and technical Publications, pp. 314-315. Gelb, I. J. 1952. A study of writing: The foundations of grammatology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 142, 144. Gaur, Albertine. 1992. A History of Writing. London: British Library. {{ISBN|0-7123-0270-0}}. pp. 143. Coulmas, Florian. 1996. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. {{ISBN|0-631-19446-0}}. pp.&nbsp;366-368</ref> was first described in late [[Renaissance Humanism|Humanist]]/[[Baroque]] scholarship by [[János Telegdy]] in his primer {{lang|la|Rudimenta Priscae Hunnorum Linguae}}. Published in 1598, Telegdi's primer presents his understanding of the script and contains Hungarian texts written with runes, such as the [[Lord's Prayer]].

In the 19th century, scholars began to research the rules and the other features of the Old Hungarian script. From this time, the name {{lang|hu|rovásírás}} ('runic writing') began to re-enter the popular consciousness in Hungary, and script historians in other countries began to use the terms "Old Hungarian", {{lang|de|Altungarisch}}, and so on. Because the Old Hungarian script had been replaced by Latin, linguistic researchers in the 20th century had to reconstruct the alphabet from historic sources. [[Gyula Sebestyén]], an ethnographer and [[Folkloristics|folklorist]], and [[Gyula Németh (linguist)|Gyula (Julius) Németh]], a philologist, linguist, and Turkologist, did the lion's share of this work. Sebestyén's publications, {{lang|hu|Rovás és rovásírás}} (''Runes and runic writing'', [[Budapest]], 1909) and {{lang|hu|A magyar rovásírás hiteles emlékei}} (''The authentic relics of Hungarian runic writing'', Budapest, 1915) contain valuable information on the topic.