{"id":1228,"date":"2009-07-09T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2009-07-09T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:35:02","slug":"hungarian-runes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian runes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llangollen2009.com\/\">Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod<\/a> I was quite surprised to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/hungarian_runes.htm\">Hungarian Runes \/ <em>Rov\u00e1s<\/em><\/a> (<em>Sz\u00e9kely Rov\u00e1s\u00edr\u00e1s<\/em>) being used. They appear on the logo and publicity material of a Hungarian drumming group who perform Hungarian folk dances and songs that date back to the 11th century, a time when the Sz\u00e9kler Magyars were writing with the <em>rov\u00e1s<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The group, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taltosdob.hu\/\">Feher Taltos Traditional Hungarian Drummers<\/a> (<em>Reg\u00e9l\u0151 Feh\u00e9r T\u00e1ltos<\/em>), is very good, and well worth going to see.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_rovas2.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"276\" alt=\"Examples of Hungarian rov\u00e1s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the bit of writing on the right, which comes from the group&#8217;s flyer, reads, &#8220;Reg\u00e9l\u0151 Feh\u00e9r T\u00e1ltos Hagyom\u00e1ny\u0151rz\u0151 Egyes\u00fclet Dobcsapata&#8221;, which I assume is the group&#8217;s name in Hungarian. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod I was quite surprised to see Hungarian Runes \/ Rov\u00e1s (Sz\u00e9kely Rov\u00e1s\u00edr\u00e1s) being used. They appear on the logo and publicity material of a Hungarian drumming group who perform Hungarian folk dances and songs that date back to the 11th century, a time when the Sz\u00e9kler Magyars were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}