Characters
The runic alphabet includes 42 letters. As in the Old Turkic script, some consonants have two forms, to be used with back vowels (a, á, o, ó, u, ú) and front vowels (e, ë, é, i, í, ö, ő, ü, ű) respectively.
To gather information about the transliteration's pronunciation, see Hungarian alphabet.
The Hungarian runes also include some non-alphabetical runes which are not ligatures but separate signs. These are called capita dictionum. Further research is needed to define their origin and traditional usage. Some examples:
Read more about this topic: Old Hungarian Alphabet
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