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Martin and the Rovás signs

When bikers saw the Rovas city limit signs, they got a little bit of a cultural homework. It’s worth it.


Rovas – something interesting

It is needless to say that cultural heritage is appreciated by civilized people.

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Google Earth blurs out Rovas

Another article about the suspicious practice in the Google Street View. A great part of the Rovas city limit signs are blurred out. More anti-Rovas issues.

 

Google Earth blurs out Rovas city limit signs

Hungarians are baffled over Google policy of blurring out Rovas city signs in Google Earth street view. 

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Google – Rovas censorship?

Strange practice in the Google Street View. A great part of the Rovas city limit signs are simply blurred out. And there are more anti-Rovas issues. (Photos and links)

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Runic supporters swear at Israel

The international encoding of the Rovas script gets further bogged down. The Old Hungarian Runic supporters indulge in nazi, antisemitic statements.

 

Instead of consensus – cultural Blitzkrieg

Since 2008, in the international encoding process of the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas (erronously called Old Hungarian / Hungarian Runic) there is an unfortunate “cultural war” waged by pro-Runic encoding activists against the Hungarian scientific-professional stakeholders and the user community.

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Declaration to ISO/IEC, UTC

Representatives of the Hungarian scientific, technological and standardization community made a joint declaration against the scandalous encoding process of the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas and for the start of an expert based standardization. 

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Aiming a nazi script?

The “runization” attempt of the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas in the Unicode-ISO encoding process is supported by extreme ideologies.

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Handwritten Rovas

There are experiments to develop quick types of handwritten Rovas, though no signs of their wide spread usage.

 

Modern experiments with Rovas

Gyorsrovás (in English: Quick Rovas or Rovas Shorthand) was developed by Attila Répai as an alternative way to write Hungarian using a rounded style of the Hungarian rovás (used in books between the 16th and 19th centuries).

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Rovas in the New York Times

The NYT is surprised about a “Hungarian dominated region in the middle of Romania”. The illustration is a hockey-jersey with Szekely Land label. There is Rovas script on it as well.

 

Symbol of a struggle – An article in the New York Times about the Szekely Land

Friday, February 8, 2013

James Montague for The New York Times

A fan at the Romanian Cup final.

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Szekely Rovas in Africa

Szekely rally racers from Gyergyó erected a totem pole (Kopjafa) in the Sahara desert. Of course with Szekely-Hungarian Rovas, the national script on it.

 

Szekely Kopjafa (totem pole) erected in the Sahara desert

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Székely Hungarian participants of the Budapest-Bamako Rally erected a Hungarian totem pole (Kopjafa) in Western Sahara; the plaque on the totem pole marks the imaginary line called Tropic of Cancer in both Latin and ancient Hungarian Rovas characters.

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Rovas memory game

Good news for those who would like to learn the ancient Hungarian writing system, the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas script. Memory game.

 

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

There is a simple but effective memory game that you can install on your computer and start learning the Rovas script right away.

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Rovas Bible to the Pope

The official appreciation of the Rovas Bible is an unprecedented cultural diplomacy success for the Szekely-Hungarian Rovas.

 

New Testament’s Rovas edition to Pope Benedict 16-th

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

As part of the Papal Audience on February 15, 2012, the head of the Rovas Foundation, László Sípos presented a special Rovas Script Edition of the New Testament and an informative cover letter about the ancient Hungarian writing system to Pope Benedict XVI.