The Old Hungarian script (Hungarian rovásírás, rovás = notch, rune, irás = writing), sometimes also called Hungarian runes because of its appearance, was used in the early Middle Ages before the introduction of the Latin alphabet to write Hungarian. It runs from right to left.
The Old Hungarian script is possibly related to the Orkhon runes (Old Turkic script), which, like most European and West Asian alphabets, have their roots in the Phoenician script. There is no relationship to the Germanic runes.
In the early 21st century, the script is being used more frequently again. There are several towns and villages in Hungary that have not only the place name written in Latin script but also the place name in Old Hungarian script. In modern use, in contrast to historical use, a distinction is made between upper and lower case letters (with similar application rules as in the Latin spelling of the Hungarian language), which, however, only differ in size, not in shape.