Hungarian Runes ("Székely Rovásírás" in Hungarian; also called "rovas") is a type of runic writing system used among the pagan Magyars prior to 1000 AD, when the first Christian king of Hungary, St. Stephen I (István) ordered that all pre-Christian writings be destroyed and that the Latin alphabet be adopted. However, this script remained in use in remote regions of Transylvania until the late 1850s.

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	Hungarian prehistory: Information from Answers.com (6856 words) Hungarian prehistory includes the wanderings of such disparate steppe nomads as the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars, Iazyges, Pechenegs, Cumanians, and others, all of whom may have contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Hungarians. Hungarian folk art is built with unbelievable richness around the tulip, a flower first cultivated in Central Asia on the perimeter of the Gobi desert. According to the Hungarian legend of the Turúl Hawk (a mythical bird which corresponds to the Sumerian "Dugud"), Ãœgyek, the descendant of king Magog and a royal leader of the land of Scythia, married the daughter of Ened-Belia, whose name was Emeshe (a word that means "priestess" in Sumerian language). Hungarian Runes (Székely Rovásírás) (212 words) Hungarian runes (Székely Rovásírás) are are thought to have descended from the Turkic script (Kök Turki) used in Central Asia, though some scholars believe the Hungarian runes pre-date the Turkic script. Hungarian Runes were usually written on sticks in boustrophedon style (alternating direction right to left then left to right). The runes include separate letters for all the phonemes of Hungarian and are in this respect better suited to written Hungarian than the Latin alphabet.
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