The Old Hungarian script, the so-called " Rovás alphabet " The country switched to using the Latin language and alphabet under king Stephen I of Hungary ( reigned: 997-1038 ), and as late as 1844, Latin remained the official language of Hungary.

Hungarians also had their own writing system, the Old Hungarian script, but no significant texts remain from that time, as the usual medium of writing, wooden sticks, is perishable.

The earliest known example of Hungarian religious poetry is the Old Hungarian ' Lamentations of Mary ' from the 14th century.

* Hedwig Jagiellon ( 1513 – 1573 ), daughter of Sigismund I the Old of Poland and his first wife the Hungarian Countess Barbara Zápolya.

At this point however, Dulo Kaghan Kubrat, refused to accept Khazar rule and was cut-off to establish the short-lived state of Old Great Bolgary disintegrating upon his death with the majority migrating west where they carried out the first Hungarian conquest in 677.

Nominative cases are found in Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Georgian, German, Latin, Greek, Icelandic, Old English, Old French, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Russian, and Pashto, among other languages.

Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century.

* Historian and linguist András Róna-Tas believes the ethonym " Bashkir " is a Bulgar Turkic reflex of the Hungarian self-denomination " Magyar " ( Old Hungarian: " Majer ").

Soviet and Hungarian troops used the building, some of the beautifully decorated rooms were used for an Old People's Home, and the park was divided into smaller plots of land.

The Old Hungarian script is an alphabetic writing system used by the Hungarians before the 10th century.

In modern Hungarian, the script is known as, or, ; for short also simply " notch, score ") Because it is superficially reminiscent of the runic alphabet, the Old Hungarian script has also been described as " runic " or " runiform ".

The script is thought to be derived from the Old Turkic script ( unless both it and Old Hungarian derive from a now-lost parent ), and was probably in use by the 9th century.

The Hungarian Runes are derived from the Old Turkic script, itself recorded in inscriptions dating from c. AD 720.

All the letters but one for sounds which were shared by Turkic and Ancient Hungarian can be related to their Old Turkic counterparts.

Epigraphic evidence for the use of the Old Hungarian script in medieval Hungary dates to the 10th century, for example, from Homokmégy The latter inscription was found on a fragment of a quiver made of bone.

The Latin alphabet was adopted as official script, however Old Hungarian continued to be used vernacularly.

The Old Hungarian script became part of folk art in several areas during this period.

In Royal Hungary, Old Hungarian script was used less, although there are relics from this territory, too.

There is another copy – similar to the Nikolsburg Alphabet – of the Old Hungarian alphabet, dated 1609.

Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The Old Turkic script evident in epigraphy from the 8th century likely also has its origins in the Aramaic script.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ).

* Vilhelm Thomsen, decipherer of the Old Turkic script

# REDIRECT Old Italic script

The Latin script owes its existence to the Etruscan alphabet, which was adapted for Latin in the form of the Old Italic alphabet.

The Old Turkic script ( also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script ) is the alphabet used by the Göktürk and other early Turkic Khanates during the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.

Further Turkic Nestorian manuscripts, that have the same " rune-like " duct as the Old Turkic script, have been found especially in the oasis of Turfan and in the fortress of Miran.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Old Chris is my ideal.

Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.

The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.

Stagecoach Days is the theme for the weekend on the Old Chisholm Trail.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

Old Mr. Thom is already down on Wally, and we simply can't afford to get Ken mad at us '' --

It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".