Hunnic language
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The Hunnic language is an extinct language of the Huns. The record of the language is sparse, and its relationship to other languages is disputed.
According to a popular opinion, Hunnic was an Altaic language, related to the present-day Chuvash language, which combines basic features of the Altaic with considerable influence of the Finno-Ugric languages (e.g., Hungarian language).
As the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica reasons, "It is assumed that the Huns also were speakers of an r- and l-type Turkic language and that their migration was responsible for the appearance of this language in the West. The r- and l-type language is now documented only by Chuvash, a language considered as a descendant of a Volga-Bulgarian language. The rest of the Turkic languages are of the z- and s-type".
See also
- The World of the Huns by Otto Maenchen-Helfen - Language chapter
