szia rita!
welcome to the community!
thanks for your meaty first post!

in this post i would like to continue this exciting thread with some additional infos on székelys and their runic writing system.

here you are their alphabet and a short description, whom after you can read the szekely national anthem in rovásírás (runic script).

"Who are the SZÉKELY and CSÁNGÓ Magyars?

(Based on “Kiszely István: A magyar nép õstörténete”

Read the original in Hungarian at http://istvandr.kiszely.hu/ostortenet/index.html)

The majority of the Székelys - some 2.5-2.7 million (by official census only 1.7 million) - are found in the Eastern and southeastern portion of the Carpathian basin, known as Transylvania, separated from the bulk of the Magyars, in the midst of strangers, living their unique, isolated way of life, never having denied their Magyar identity.

Their name, in the Latinized “sicul” form, first appeared at the end of the 11th century, and in its Magyar form (székely, zekel) has been known since 1334.

According to Hungarian chronicles and the Székely folk tradition, the Székelys are descendants of those of Attila’s Hun people who had returned into the Carpathian Basin -- to Csigle-meadows of the Meadows District, under the leadership of prince Csaba. The chronicler Anonymus talked about "A székelyek, akik elöbb Attila népe volt" (“The Szekelys who were formerly the people of Attila”); and another historian Simon Kézai wrote: "3000 hun visszatért Pannóniába… és Árpád idejéig a Csiglamezön (Mezöségben) maradtak és ott magukat nem hunoknak, hanem székelyeknek nevezték" (“3000 Huns returned to Pannonia…and until the time of Arpad they stayed on the Csiglamezo (Meadows District), calling themselves not Huns but Székelys). The Székelys offered their services to the settling Magyars, thus they are not a conquered but an allied people who joined themselves to the Magyars under treaty.

The Székelys have always recognized themselves as Magyars, their language having preserved some of the oldest characteristics of the Magyar language; and the ancient Magyar alphabet was kept alive the longest in the “Székely rovásírás” (Székely runic script)."
LINK HERE.


and here is the national anthem of székelys (Székely himnusz) in runic script:

credit: HERE.
i have to make attention on this runic text cuz it is in a bit of a mess!
runas mirrored and the reading direction is to the wrong (left-to-right) direction...
..so i keep on searching for explanation and correct text...

Quote:

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SYZYGY NEWS!!!
some guy who knows this method told me, it is it is six of one and half a dozen of the other !
...as there are no mirrored-similar runas you can write them both ways, and you can also easily see at first sight which is the writing direction -in case you speak hungarian-.

-szekelys used to write on square-based logs and read-turn-twist was the reading method -he said.-

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keep up the good work!
Gábor

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