Hungarian Palaeography
K ájoni's manuscript Alphabetum Siculicum from year 1873 is extremely important for us. It is not only giving an insight into the "old fashioned Székler alphabet", but also revealing the secrets of abbreviations (ligatures), when two or more characters are put together. This is actually giving a clue about the origins of the syllabic writing, which survives even today in middle-Eastern and far-Eastern writing systems.
On the first illustration there is a writing:ISTEN DÜCSÖRETTESSÉK MINDÖRÖKKÉ AMEN.
NaPROL NaPRA HIRDETTESSÉK AZ Ö NEVE AMEN.
On the second illustration Abbreviations we can see three characters that can not be explained by contractions of other characters, they are ANT, RHRU and OMB. Their presence shows, that in ancient times their role may have been very significant, but in modern Hungarian there is no trace of them. The OMB is of special significance: this is a fossil phoneme that connects the nasal sound M with the labial B, like in examples ember, in Latin homo, or English human. In the past this sound must have been much more common than it is today, otherwise the old ones would not bother, to invent a new sign for it. Back to the Hungarian Rovás
