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The similarities between Hungarian runic writing ("rovásírás") and Turkic could suggest a common progenitor, a hypothetical "Protosteppe" writing. [1] Many groups used Protosteppe writing along the Eurasian steppes, including the Turks. The historical users of this script were in contact with Persia and the near East. Persia and other developed southern states had advanced writing. Their cultures continuously influenced the nations of the steppes, and the steppe writing also adopted several letters from southern writing systems over the ages.[2]
Protosteppe is a hypothetical language system, and there is no known instance confirming its existence.
Connection to Other Writing Systems
editThe diagram below illustrates the languages which developed from the hypothetical Early Steppe writing. This writing system originated from the Phoencian alphabet, however its child systems also share some symbols with Turkic runes, so these symbols must have existed in the Protosteppe script.
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According to the linguist Klára Sándor, the Protosteppe script may not be directly linked to the East Turkic runic script, and the current sources also mean that a more distant link is also dubious. This statement supports that the Protosteppe script may be a parent system of the Old Turkic script and, indirectly, of the Old Hungarian script.
History
editThe Protosteppe script developed primarily from four scripts: imperial Aramaic and its two descendants, Kharosthi and Parthian, as well as the Old Turkic script. Of the steppe nations, only the Yuezhi adopted the imperial Aramaic alphabet around 2nd century BCE, thus this can be interpreted as the foundation of the Protosteppe script. The child systems of Protosteppe include the Eurasian runic script family (Carpathian runic script, Steppe runic script, Old Hungarian script) and the Old Turkic script. The end of the use of Protosteppe can be estimated to the 7th century CE, since this is when the Turkic script was established in Central Asia. The impact of previous runic scripts on the later runic scripts and Old Turkic script can be seen on the figure below.
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Sources
edit- Hosszú, Gábor (2011): Heritage of Scribes. The Relation of Rovas Scripts to Eurasian Writing Systems. First Edition. Budapest: Rovas Foundation, https://books.google.hu/books?id=TyK8azCqC34C&pg=PA1 (English)
- Vékony Gábor (2004): A székely írás emlékei, kapcsolatai, története (Hungarian)
External Links
edit- Comments on encoding the Rovas scripts Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine (English)
- Rovásírások családja a RovásPédián (English)
Notes
edit- ↑ Hosszú, Gábor (2012). Heritage of Scribes: The Relation of Rovas Scripts to Eurasian Writing Systems. Rovas Foundation. ISBN 978-963-88437-4-6.
- ↑ Hosszú, Gábor; Erdélyi, István (2012). Heritage of scribes: the relation of rovas scripts to Eurasian writing systems (2., extended ed.). Budapest: Rovás Foundation. ISBN 978-963-88437-4-6.