HUNGARIAN NATIVE WRITING DRAFT

The hungaian native writing no doubt has the same origin as the old turkish writing, whitch was for example found at the river Orhun and at the river Yenisey, and the writing used by the Huns. (In the hungarian language the word "betü " means letter near same as the old-turkis word "bitig".) After the Huns, the Avar Empire ruled the Carpathian basin. At the end of the VIII. century the Avar Empire collapsed. Little Avar grups stayed in Transylvania, but several groups went to the east. In 896 the Magyars returned to the Carpatian Base, and the cronicles says, that the groups which had stayed, were us-ing this kind of writing. Two cronicle says the opposite about the origin of the writing. The "Ilustrated cronicle " says, that the Székely stayers had learnt this writing from the bulgar-turkish "blak " groups during the IX. century, despite of the fact, that any example of the Bulgar-Turkish writing has not been found. (Today we can not read the remaining short texts written by the Avars.) In conflict with the "Ilustrated cronicle", the "Thuróczy cronicle " says, that the Székelys was still keeping the old, Hun style writing. The returned magyars in all propability used an old-turkish style writing system too, but the count of the remaining texts are very low. 1 (The Székelys was appointed for border-guarding of Hungary. so they were a little bit sep-arated from the other parts of the country. The Székely dialect of the hungarian language is used in eastern Transylvania.) 2 Ages of Using During the last thousand year, in Hungary, the Latin letters were used in offical. (And till 1836 the latin language was the official language.) The hungarian native writing was never been used formally, it was used only informally. The unofficial use caused a little bit anarchy, and great number of variants. Sometimes it was used as a secret writing. For example during the Austrian occupation of Hungay, it was used as secret writing by the Calvinist priests. The native writing fit to the hungarian language better than the latin writing. During the centuries the hungarian native writing became popular not only among the Székelys, but all over among the hungarians, especially among the students of the calvinist schools.