The origins of Hunnish Runic Writing (16) The Turkish connection

 

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 Aegean, Sumerian, Hittite pictorial scripts.

-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 Turkish Empire. Chinese sources say that the Turks adopted the administration system from their Juan-Juan predecessors, which could preserve a part of the Hunnish traditions. The probability of this is also supported by the fact that the early Hunnish-Székely relics of writing are older than the first Turkish ones. Also, some of the Székely character names are also more archaic than the corresponding Turkish names (Figs. 2, 7). Therefore, Turks could adopt Hunnish-Székely script, but it could not have happened the other way around. For these reasons Turkish script cannot be the forefather of Székely but rather its descendant or - more likely - its collateral relative.

Contents

Preface to the English edition	7.
Preface	9.
History of the scientific views on the origins of Székely runic script	10.
Principles of deriving the origins of Székely script	26.
The development of writing	28.
The shapes of runes and the objects they represent	29.
The mythology, names, and sound values of runes	32.
Rituals and runic script	35.
Types and number of characters	37.
Order of characters	39.
Direction of reading and characters	48.
Syllabic signs	52.
The regular use of syllable and vowel signs	55.
The birth of letter scripts	58.
Comparing of writing systems	61.
The academic historical-geographical preconception	68.
The Turkish connection	70.
What the historical sources say	71.
Székely script of the Huns	73.
The age of the development of Székely character forms	79.
The age of unification of Székely character sets	82.
Hungarian vocabulary connected to writing	87.
Ligatures that survived millennia	92.
Migrations of peoples	97.
Summary	101.
Bibliography	109.

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