The
types and number of characters
To decipher an unknown script the first step is to
count the number of characters. Word-scripts have approximately 700-2000
characters, syllabic scripts 60-70, and alphabets 20-
It is significant, that the character set described by
Marsigli contains 38 runes, the "alphabet" of Nikolsburg 46, and the
character set of Thelegdi 65 runes.
According to János Thelegdi Székelys have altogether 32 letters, among them nine vowel. Eighteen consonants are simple (some of them mark syllabic groups: "aK" and "eK"), and five consonants are "complex" (e.g. "ny"). In addition to these, Thelegdi lists twenty-one "regular" (BA) and nine "irregular" (BB) ligature syllable-signs. "Additionally, they have some syllable-signs similar to reptiles, which are not made up from existing letters.
Fig. 12. Coronation Robe and parallels, made in 1031 for Prince Saint Imre, The picture on the Robeidentifies the wearer with the axis of teh world
Székelys call these the head of words/phrases (capita
dictionum)", writes Thelegdi and adds the drawings of the hieroglyphs
"amb", "tpru", and "ent". (However
"ent" is an ancient ligature, see Fig. 14).
Székely script mostly contains characters of A, B, aB,
Ba, AB, BA, BB, aBB, BaB, Bba,
and BAB type, besides contracted one-letter characters standing for words of
several syllables (aNTaL, ALBeRT) or short sentences (eGY USTeN = the only god; ÕS
éG = ancient heaven), hieroglyphs ("us"), and sign montages
(world models etc.) used for decoration and religious purposes. Such a complex
symbolic system that had been interwoven with the Hungarians’ ideas of the
world could hardly be deduced from a foreign and late (Semitic or Greek)
writing system.
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