What language is that? Spotted in Martonvásár, Fejér alongside some other german signs

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  1. It’s the Black Tongue, the official language of Mordor

  2. “rovás+írás” just means “carved writing” btw. These runiform letters could easily be carved into soft wood with a penknife or carving knife and used as decoration or markers.

    They enjoy a lot of popularity today still as a part of national heritage and and you can find such signs repeating the town’s name in the runiform scipt next to many settlements.

  3. A horsenomad cosplaying cult exists here in Hungary, who want to establish this runic writing system. They claim it is the “original” Hungarian writing, but that is highly doubted. There are no original texts in this alphabet, not a single book or parchment. Some very rare inscriptions show single words in something that vaguely looks like this. It was first described in 1598, it is not clear whether this is a late medieval/humanist invention or an original writing system that was used previously.

    Anyways it is a completely dead tradition, people who read it learned it as a secondary writing system, there are no native users left. And have not been for centuries.

    Some people want to “resurrect” this system, so several towns have these signs where the name of the town is written in the latin and the runic alphabet both. No one can read it though. A few years ago some tricksters switched one runic board to a similar one showing the word “hello” and none noticed for ~~years~~. a month.

  4. it’s called “cicabetűk” or in english “kitty letters”

  5. Just because nobody mentioned it before, you also read it from right to left.

  6. We used to use it before joining the EU, then they forced us to change to the latin alphabet

  7. Its an ancient Hungarian alphabet.

    Kinda like viking runes.

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