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Hungarian Runes are not related to Germanic Runes, they derive from the Orkhon or Turkic Runic (Kök Turki) script. They were usually written on sticks in boustrophedon style (alternating direction right to left and then left to right). In some respect they are more suitable for writing hungarian than the latin alphabet, because it includes separate letters for all the phonemes of Hungarian. Also note that it does not contain the so called "foreign letters": dz, dzs, q, w, x and y; which only appear in foreign words' hungarianization.
These days, unfortunately, the "rovásírás" has got a political undertone. It is mainly used by far-rightist groups in propaganda or seen on similar grafitti across Hungary.