The
Turkish connection
Old-Turkish scripts have four different vowel
characters, each marking two vowel sounds (a-á, o-u, i-y, ö-ü). It has only
seven single-sound consonant characters (real letters; m, z, s1, s2, p, cs, and
nasal j). It has four double consonant characters (“ng,” “nd/nt,” “ncs,”
“ld/lt”). The remaining 23 consonant characters are completed with either back
or front vowels when pronounced; in this way they are able to form two, four,
six, eight, or ten syllables. Wilhelm Thomsen, the decipherer of the special
Turkish writing system, was right to call it a syllable script.
As it was mentioned before, different authors could
identify a varying number (between two and twenty-one) of coincidences between
Turkish and Székely characters. These comparisons, however, would not reveal
the true connection between Turkish and Székely scripts, even if the noticed
coincidences were real. They do not inform us whether both developed from a
common source, or one developed from the other - and if so, which served as a
pattern for the other.
Székely script is not likely to be of Turkish origin
for the following reasons:
-Almost all Eurasian character and writing systems
that used similar writing technology show approximately the same number of
similarities in shape to Székely runes as do Turkish scripts. Therefore these
similarities in shape are not significant enough to decide the problem of
origin.
-There are very few characters in which both the
graphic and the phonetic form correspond.
-The system of sound representation in Old-Turkish
script is radically different from that of Székely script.
-There are some characters in Székely script (see for
example Figs. 31, 32) that are missing from Turkish but exist in other earlier
scripts such as in
-Turkish character order does not follow that of the
“Latin-type,” but the Székely one does.
-According to chronicles, the Hunnish Empire ruled by
the predecessors of the House of Árpád (Hungarians) had existed before the
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