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I've reverted that short paragraph again.
From the hunnic language, only names (of unknown meaning) and three words are preserved. From the Xiongnu language, only names and titles, and only in phonetic transliteration in Chinese are preserved. In both cases, there is no scientific consensus even to what type of language they spoke. I don't quite understand how under such circumstances, "recent research" can "connect" two items that are largely unknown, while still following established scientific principles. It seems that this is merely the speculation of just one individual of unknown qualification. It will need independent confirmation by other researchers (who actually agree with him, not just report "he said so") before it makes sense to mention it in the article. --Latebird (talk) 16:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Reply to Latebird:
Because I wrote that before your second comment. The professor used the word Huns in that interview not the Hungarian sources, they use the word hun for Hun and hiungnu for Xiongnu. But not the interview is important here but the linguistic studies published by him and the others. From your statements I ascertained you didn`t read either of the sources, or any of the mentioned studies, just speculating. This is not the way of dispute. I think we shouldn't involve ourselves in disproofing published works of linguist experts with our own thoughts, this would be original research. I can't even imagine that Wikipedia prohibits mentioning published recent studies and researches of experts. This is the main question here, not what we think about one thing or other.
So I disagree, but please lets reverse the direction of this dispute and focus on the content: Please explain which policies of Wikipedia does that sentence violate? If it violates any it should be removed, but if none it shouldn't, I think.
P.S. The current article is full of obvious errors even with nonsense sentences. Dzsoker (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Reply to Sborsody:
I think you may have missed the point and chronology of his research. He states that based on his 15 years of research he considered so far the Mongolian to the most related to the language of the Xiongnu. He knows very well that the Mongolians were the Xianbei (Donghu). (Before he got acquainted with the Hungarian language material, but it was just in 2006, so he could only make some quick overviews and begin the research with this new data.)
And it makes some sense, because he goes with the chronology of history, and consider the succession order in political meaning as the Xiongnu, Xianbei (Mongols), Huns, Turks. The Xianbei and the Turk were the subjects of the Xiongnu, and after the Xiongnu migrated westwards to became Huns, the Turks were the subjects of the Rouran and Touba, these last two are of Xianbei. And the point lies here, that those separate words of Hunnic and Xiongnu considered Turkic so far are in the Mongolian too and the proto-Turks were Xianbei subjects for almost five hundred years, so those dignity titles couldn't come from Turkic to Mongolian, only from the Xiongnu/Hun. And the Xiongnu words he has reconstructed from the ancient Chinese chronicles are connected more to Mongolian than to Turkic. What is logical also, because he considers the Mongolians much older people than the Turks as such, what is also true. And thus the Mongolians connect more to the Xiongnu than the Turks. And from these he has pointed out that the Xiongnu language and so also the Hunnic could not be Turkic for sure, and because of the other reconstructed words and from the Touba-Chinese dictionaries and other informations of the Chinese chronincles we can know that the Touba were Mongolian and their language was not Xiongnu, so it has only one explanation: that the Xiongnu also had an original language (and it was that of the Huns also).
And on the Hungarian words, he doesn't ignore the history of the Hungarian words he is researching at all, becase he considers a number of those were Xiongnu words too (but he just started the research with these as I mentioned above), from what they went to Turkic. And with his new Hungarian colleagues they have also found even such Xiongnu words in Hungarian with exact meanings and layouts which aren't either in Turkic or Mongolian and maybe such Hungarian words also which are not in the Turkish, only in Touba and both of those type of words have unknown etymologies in the established Uralic theory of the Hungarian language. But these new Hungarian related findings are not connected to his original Xiongnu/Hunnic theory, and on these there aren't much info in his book what collects his studies of the past 15 years of research which were published in the Inner Mongolian University Press from the second half of the 1990s.
"And I was looking forward to some good new information on this subject." you may should start with the other source I supported: from the interpreter of Uchiraltu book Dr.O.B. interview "for example Angela Marcantonio linguist, the professor of Cambridge University attracted the attention to a recent published summarywork. Therein Schönig writes at the chapter of Turkic-Mongolian collocations, that their common progenitors may had been the Huns or the post-Hunnic people" and in this article also a thorough critical overview of Altaic thing can be found "Generally, the more carefully the areal factor has been investigated, the smaller the size of the residue open to the genetic explanation has tended to become. According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items. For these, other possible explanations have also been proposed. Most importantly, the 'Altaic' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship..." (pg. 403). Schönig, Claus. 2003. "Turko-Mongolic Relations," The Mongolic Languages. Ed. Juha Janhunen. Routledge. Pages 403-419.
P.S.: So I think this new school of thought can be mentioned in the article for as we can see from this conversation also, it provides important new informations on researches of specialists to the wide public. Dzsoker (talk) 01:56, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
this guy want to remove Hun's Turkic identity, he also once claimed that Huns were Iranian tribe!!!: damn!!! those were the days my friend--195.174.23.184 (talk) 22:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
hi, Borsody, you again back on job, i wish you ll be in the way, but destroying the Turkic roots in the first paraghraph is not the solution. it cant be removed. how could it be destroying Norse roots of Vikings? right? its the same, brother.--195.174.23.184 (talk) 08:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
"Many clans may also have claimed to be Huns..." Saying "many clans" is somewhat weaselish. We should be able to say which clans. Does anyone have the Walter Pohl source? The preview on books.google doesn't display all the pages. Even worse, this line may be a direct copy from that source. It must be checked. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 06:08, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
In the article itself, Otto Maenchen-Helfen's reference is used where it is said that supposedly the number of Turkish words in the Hunnic language was very small...in the same reference if the conclusions page is observed it says otherwise...so if someone could please re-edit the language of the Hun's it would be more appropriate for Wikipedia. Here is the link http://www.kroraina.com/huns/mh/mh_11.html. Cheers. 190.26.88.84 (talk) 03:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Its Turkic, not Turkiish
Is it not incorrect to speak of Visi- and Ostro-Goths prior and during the Hun era. They were rather known as Greuthingi and Tervingi. Visigoths and Ostrogoths appear after the collapse of the Hun Empire Hxseek (talk) 09:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
The article states: "The Magyars (Hungarians) in particular lay claim to Hunnic heritage." How accurate is this statement? Norvo (talk) 04:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
There were no Visigoths or Ostrogoths in the 4th century. They were formed after the collapse of the Huns, ie in 5th century A.D. rather, they were Greuthingi and Tervingi Hxseek (talk) 11:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
It's curious to read that because there are no modern archeological data to confirm the claim that the Huns are part of the XiongNu tribe who migrated out of Mongolia in the 1st century AD after they were defeated by the Han Chinese, the "modern scholars" in the West reverted to the 6th century AD Gothic claim that the Huns were a savage race descended from "witches and evil spirits". Good thinking, whoever the "modern scholars" are! Even though Chinese kept detailed records and their history clearly identified the Huns as the branch of XiongNu who refused to sumbit to Han and migrated west to crush less formidable foes, even though there are many cultural similarities and identical military strategies between the Huns, the XiongNu, and the Mongols, it's not sufficient proof for the "western scholars". Sounds rather like "racism" at work here. --VimalaNowlis (talk) 23:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
It's no secret. All such groups from the western Eurasia to the east were no discretly bound peoples, but nomadic confederacies which formed, unformed and re-formed numerus times. Because of their location (ie Mongolia) and the similar 'savage' nomadic lifestyle, the Han simply often caled all subsequent groups descendents of the Xiongnu. Hxseek (talk) 08:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Huns were the original Asian Turkic nomads!!! i didnt see their ethinicy in the page, where are the editors, are they sleeping? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.101.253.75 (talk) 19:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
Everything about Huns in wikipedia is completely FALSE.Just check the maps.Huns have never been in area near the Baltic sea.Since the ice age, the eastern part of it is populated by Baltic tribes.Who wrote all this nonsense ?
didnt the huns attack some of the baltic tribes??? im probably completely wrong, but i thought they did.67.177.121.141 (talk) 22:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)SK
'Hunai' are 'guniai/ganiai' Baltic people. This name gunai/guniai/pogonia(the herald of Lithuania and Gudia-Belorussia) means people riding horses and hunting/catching/sheparding herds. JUST CHECK THEIR NAMES. Atila (Eitila or Vaidila means the chief ruler or chief priest), Rugila (a rye), Uldinas (Gulbinas means a male swan), Dengizikas (Danguzhiukas means a child who belongs to heavens), Irnik (Stirniukas means a little roe), Hernak (Sherniukas means a little boar), Ellac (Elniukas means a little deer), Nedava (not giving), Sava (ours), Margus (pied/varicoloured), Bleda (Briedis means a male moose) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.173.120 (talk) 10:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
http://www.vaidilute.com/books/gimbutas/figure-36.jpg
As you see, Huns have populated at least 4 times smaller regions, far to east, never in Europe.
Therefore it's non usable to judging of where huns live in other times. 94.21.155.224 (talk) 19:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
The map in the article is inaccurate. As someone mentioned, the huns never occupied up to the baltic. They might have raided the area, but their base was limited to area of hungary to black sea Hxseek 12:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
-But is the map I posted more accurate? (N33 06:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC))
The man who associated (European) Huns with Xiongnu (Asian Huns), Joseph de Guignes, said both people were Turkic. Why is there a tendency to give a wrong impression?--Mttll (talk) 08:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Mttll, because they dont want to see Turkic civilation texts in here wikipedia. because they are fascist pan-aryan losers. and also see the Xiongnu page. they re-write and fulled the page with tons of bullshit. everybody knows the Xiongnu (Doğu Hun) were proto-Turks but they removed sources and nobody take care about it. --195.174.23.184 (talk) 12:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry but if wikipedia was the collective of very fair and open minded people, i wouldnt react like that.. see Xiongnu page and see what does Wikipedia mean for!--195.174.23.184 (talk) 18:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Should it be that 'Turkic' people are 'Hunnic' people's rather than the other way around? 'Hun' (or Xiongnu which was pronounce 'Huni') preceded the name 'Turk' (Tujue) by a few hundred years according to Chinese history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.185.78 (talk) 07:37, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
In terms of the citizens per se, the Xiongnu were a confederacy of tribes, unified under a single governing military system, somewhat an umbrella term maybe? like how Central Asians were called Mongols in the 12-13th century, whereas today Mongol only means those from Mongolia (though it could have possibly largely also referenced Altaic-speakers which in my strong opinion is correct - given there is hardly historically any other common languages in the Ordos/Altai regions other than Altaic or Sinic (vastly much fewer Yinesian or Indo-European). The question probably just is how closely related the ruling class of the Huns in Europe, were to the rulers of Xiongnu. Were the European Huns rulers direct descendants, unrelated, or descendants of a remote second cousin once removed. Likely, they were culturally the same but with only distant common ancestry (i.e. both likely turkic). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.154.193 (talk) 09:34, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
There is no reference in this article to the Huns in India. As far as I have read, they were a significant presence there, especially in Rajasthan. (See Rima Hooja's History of Rajasthan for example.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.176.153 (talk) 07:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Hepthalites were non-Hunnic (by blood) mostly originally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.154.193 (talk) 09:50, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm surprised that there's so little about the Huns during the reign of Attila on this page. I mean, I know he has his own article, but considering how he's the first thing people think of when they hear "Hun", you would think his section would be bigger. 14 February 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.61.116.83 (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Richard, you changed the dating format of this article twice, first partially and the a few months later you changed the entire article. Why did you do this?
First partial change with no mention:
14:36, 24 September 2009 Richard Keatinge (talk | contribs) (39,064 bytes) (added quotations from Jordanes - even though he may never have seen a Hun) (undo)
Complete change done 6 weeks later: 16:59, 9 November 2009 Richard Keatinge (talk | contribs) (39,862 bytes) (standardized dating format - CE) (undo)
From what I can see, you half modified the dating systems in September so that the article was partially using a mix of AD/BC & CE/BCE (mostly AD/BC) and then six week slater you changed the remainder of the article to fit with the system you added... You have not shown a substantive reason for changing the dating system and this article has been AD/BC from the first entry.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Monsieur Voltaire (talk • contribs) 22:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
I am sorry if i came across accusatory in tone. I feel strongly about this only because I have noticed an agenda amongst many editors/contributors to change dating. Your knowledge and contributions to this article and others is exemplary and very much appreciated by people like myself looking to learn. Monsieur Voltaire (talk)
The inscription on the Khan Diggiz plate is interpreted by Mukhamadiev as giving the name of a known Hunnic king, son of Attila, in a form of Turkish.[1]
- This seems somewhat relevant, but it has been removed because it is "are unconfirmed and unreviewed, and aren't included in any of the newer enycyclopedias and other articles about the Huns, despite it appeared 14 years ago." What do other editors think? Richard Keatinge (talk) 15:05, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Huns, are the first known turkish nomads, that has been discovered, why cant you say that? Please reflect History as it is, I hope this is a respectable website, then a political one. If you like to read more and ask for more evidence there is plenty of them!!! Attilla is a turkish name too, turkish has been a culture since 5,000 years, you can still see the turks in central asia such as Uzbeks, kazakhs
The Huns who dress, speak, look a like of 100% old Turks, are shown like the Slavs or Germans in the Huns page of wiki... congratulations to editors and the wiki family for this stupidness u suckz —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.233.18.59 (talk) 09:10, 7 March 2007 (UTC).
217.12.62.106 22:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)::HUN-GARY. A pretty big scandal, it's true. For a while, there were some partially right usefull remarks on Huns at this place. I self also tried to contribute 2006 with my knowledge about latest development of several old and new trends in the ONLY COUNTRY in the WHOLE WORLD, that in FACT bears the NAME of HUNS, i.e. HUNGARY, where I am living. Who to the hell dares to delete such work?
Herewith I kindly ask all highly stupid nationalistic fanatics to shedup their faces with any foreign so-called projects, since HUNS indeed DID leave their originating Eastern territories (and that at a time when nobody heard a single funny tune about peoples living now there), and after sudden death of Attila their main groups become dissolved in the Carpathian Basin, Central Europe, counting yet some thousand here.
Sure, Huns are neither slavic, nor germanic, but also not turkic. Try to understand, NOT ALL of the possibly some dozen smaller or greater nations originating from West or Central/Inner Asia and then migrating far west, must be "automaticly" turkic, even not, when they dressed likely. Similarly, e.g. also Jesus or Greeks are NOT "turkic", etc. Finaly, we find research on archeology, epigraphics, texts like letters, historiae, annales, mt.DNA, etc.
Thus, the "turkic project" should better include for example kurdic history, I recommend, and leave the Huns in and for Hungary, where they belong to. OK? Anadolu and Turks alone are great in history, they do not need to "rape" other cultures. Salem -Privateer from Hungary
Or, the explanation put forth by Benedek Elek: When the Magyars invaded Pannonia, one of the first fortresses they captured was called Ung. In Hungarian, fortress is vár, and the locative case is marked by the suffix -i. Therefore, someone from the fortress of Ung would be an "Ung-vár-i" in Hungarian, which when latinized, became the basis for the word "Hungary." Korossyl 06:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Thus, some "Hungarians" must be in fact descendant of Hun. Consider too, older sources mention some gens of old world with not true, i.e. other names. We self call ourselves also not "Hungarians", but "Magyars". Besides an important remark toward so-called "Turkic project": No lexica knows anything, or mention any trace about "Turks" before! A.D.600 - quite similar e.g. to "Slaves", evidently by reason of lack of such epigraphics in sources. Therefore Bulgaro-turkic history is another one, having much less, if any at all, to do with Hun-Magyar history in that early period of time. Turkic writer here are unfortunatelly nationalistic blinds, the whole world should be of turkic origin - ridiculous. Privateer from Hungary
nobody wants you to convert turkish. 70 million people is enough for us:) but Huns were one of the biggest Turkic empire in history. its your choice to own this empire. i dont want to say further things about your ancestry. in here its honour to be from Turkic or Turkish, and i dont care whats the meaning of this in europe.--Orkh (talk) 06:22, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Everbody HUNS=HUNGARİAN thats big nonsense...FOR EXAMPLE: Frenchs are not Germen.But The name of French comes from Germen tribes name.And everbody knows Bulgars were Turk(PROTO-TURKS) Bulgar word also Turkish word.But today they are SLAV.And SLAV .. Slav(SLOVEN) just tribes name But TODAY.And TATARS are TURKİC but Tatar word comes from Mogol tribes name. And Whats meaning of HUN? Tukurgur unogur-Onugur-HUNUGUR . OGUR means=in Turkish ARROW. TEN ARROW. Please everybody can research that and also Byzantine Empire,Sabar Turks,Bulgars,and History of Magyars. And magyars must accept that Turkic tribes were inside Magyars. AND Tell me Who is your Fascist leader ? "KONT PAL TELEKİ" your former prime minister. And He said: We are part of TURAN . He was president of FEDERATİON OF MAGYAR TURAN İF anybody dont know TURAN=PANTURKİSM ........... İf magyars wants to be Turk of course BECAUSE HUNS=TURK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.230.61.156 (talk) 17:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Actually the French people are Germans. Well, mostly a mix of Germans, Celts and Italians. Who are all decisively related anyway. So that isn't a good example to cite when talking about the false belief that Hungarians are Huns.
before being a solid kingdom the european huns conquared hungarian lands and used there as an basement.time by time this land called hungary..magyars and bulgarians are tribes that came from east to current hungarian and bulgarian lands many years after the fall of european hunnic kingdom..through the history they become slavic tribe..so current hungarians are not the grand children of huns..and by the way the huns were a strong and warrior tribe where came from central asia and possibly grand father of the current turks lives on republic of turkey and other nations which races are brother with turkey turkishs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.176.100.236 (talk) 01:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
We dont need to enter anywhere... only you cant handle your reality... you much rather get related to vikings... because you want to feel so christian and so beatiful about yourself... not that we really care about it in Turkey... but stop tempering with our history for your racial and religious ends... as far as we are concerned you can get related to Eskimos or Gypsies... We are already in the history not only in Europe... all the way to North America (We crossed Berring Channel)and we even have similar words with American indians and Japanese people not to mension the grammar... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.97.185.107 (talk) 10:58, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
All the pages about huns, attila and his empire were more accurate before, but it seems some racists cleared all the sentences about hun-turkic origin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.173.238.144 (talk) 18:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Hungary could also be Hun Oghur, or "Hun tribes", rather than "ten tribes", since after all, Hungary has an H, while Onoghur doesn't.--Xiaogoudelaohu (talk) 09:18, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Obviously the Huns in history that destroyed the Roman empire have nothing to do with the turks and that is for sure! the Turks first appeared in Chinese history book at about 600AD, when the turks build their first empire, and that is the time 100 years after the Huns disappeared! I do believe the Huns language belong to Altai language family but that doesn't mean turks are similar with Huns. Turks are turks and turks can't even communicate with one other famous altai language Mongolian! besides that, Huns appeared much earlier than the Islam. I have no idea about the north american indigenos, and I can also claim that chinese history entered the north america too because we are also mongoloids, that just sounds nonsense! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.117.228.62 (talk) 12:10, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Here's another 20th century use of "Huns" to mean Germans. In 1909, The US President (Taft?) sent troops to Nicaragua, ostensibly to protect from the Huns. This was because Nicaragua's President (Zelaya?) was opening up trade with Europe, starting with Germany. I don't have a reference right now, but I think the article should mention this. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 19:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
How often there is historical revisionism and claim that Huns are "Germanic" people, it still cannot remove the truth that Huns (the leaders at least) originated fully in Mongolia. People need to look at this in terms of history. In history there was no borders. It was just land, people come and go. There are Hun genes in Germany and throughout Europe. That is a fact because they overrun Europe regardless of borders. Huns are Mongols. If you want to know Hun, Xiongnu history and lifestyle, read more on the Mongols. That will give you plenty of info into Hun and Xiongnu period. Main reason was, Xiongnu was devastated by China during Sino-Xiongnu War and they left west. 184.96.104.50 (talk) 20:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
There's little historical or linguistic evidence to show that "Huns" are Mongolian. HammerFilmFan (talk) 19:31, 14 August 2010 (UTC)HammerFilmFan
I cannot find "it was a Turkic language" in Frucht, Richard C., Eastern Europe, (ABC-CLIO, 2005), 744. This book said Huns, a Turkic people from Asia..... Is this book without quotation Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources about this issue? Maybe we can use Otto Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns for this thesis. Takabeg (talk) 10:29, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
The sentence is a pure comment. The guy who wrote it may have no idea, but science has. Etienne de la Vaissiere[2] cites a number of archeological evidences. --CenkX (talk) 08:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
The translation of the Greek "Χουνι", in which Ptolemy wrote, to english or latin, is Huni, not Chuni! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.166.99.192 (talk) 10:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
My perspective is not a nationalist's perspective. Because I'm not a nationalist. So, please don't be offensive.
I do think that Huns were a Turkic confederation of tribes with a few Persian, Mongolian and Gothic (and maybe Slavic) tribes and those tribes had already dissolved amongst Hunnic people. Their language was the Z-branch of the old Turkic which means it was not a part of R-branch-(especially Chuvash Turkic). Check out Talat Tekin's (U. of Cali., Berkeley) and Németh's (Hungarian academician) works. Have a nice day.F.Mehmet (talk) 22:45, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I believe there is a problem with this word in English. I've never seen it. If anything it ought to refer to the Hungarians, but I've never seen it used of them either. It comes up because apparently Hungars redirects to this article. It isn't mentioned in the article. There is a place in Virginia of this name. I can't see how you would confuse Hungars with Huns. Editor, would you shed some light on this please? Otherwise I propose we just remove the hatnote and redirect Hungars to the place in Virginia.Dave (talk) 16:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
I have removed the following comment: "A link with the Xiongnu is based on an implausible name link, and two groups separated by chronological gap of three centuries. No historical documents actually link the Huns with the Xiongnu.
Arguements in favour of a link with the Xiongnu, a central-Asian, and an "ethnically" Turkic origin based on linguistic affinity are problematic. The attribution of Hunnic to Turkic is based on only fragmentaory evidence of Hunnic language, mostly reliant on proper nouns, a method often criticized by linguists. Even if Hunnic does truly represent a Turkic language, then its appearance to the Eurasian steppe need not have been brought to the west Eurasian steppe specifically by the Huns, as language spread is not solely the result of migratory movements. What is certain is that East Gothic was the spoken idiom amongst the various groups of the pax.
Based on a Xiongnu origin, the Huns are given a pre-history which did not exist. The Huns which feature in Late Antiquity Europe formed in the steppes of eastern Europe, not central Asia."
I'm not saying that I disagree with any of this, but we do need reliable sources. For all of it, but in particular for the "implausibility" of the name link. Whatever I think of it, plenty of people have found it very plausible. Richard Keatinge (talk) 12:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hun in the Mongolian language means human and there are leftovers for the descendants (Mongolians) which is written down in UIGURJIN which is old Mongolian Script. There is no doubt about Huns. Mongolians also calls their great Ancestors HUNNU one of the leader who fled to Europe was Attilla khaan and still the main Huns were at the origin (Mongolia) their leader were Modune Shaniu and his son Tumen Shaniu. Tumen in the Mongolian language means many, thousands of. Folks who are saying or connecting Huns to China might paid by Chinese govt. because China is doing everything to say that Mongolians were their province. Mongolians were never part of Chinese ever since the times of Hunnu, Sumbe, Tureg. Once upon a time China was province of Mongolia eventhough Mongolians had fewer mans. There is a record that 10.000 mongolian soldiers Beat 400.000 men chinese army. China got our traditional throughsong KHUUMII from Unesco as their traditional thing. But it were never chinese. They might be knowing it from 10 years ago. But we had it since Huns. Every Mongolians hate chinese. Now China's trying to steal our traditional Morin Khuur as their own whats wrong with them some say that China is in a process of taking over Mongolia for 1000 year. Chiniese call this idea as a Black box idea of taking over Mongolia. Once Upon a time we had taken over whole known land which is Europe and asia we had been to india 40 years before first European reach. Everyone must know about blue dot which is called Mongolian blue dot which appears on the ass. It appears on Hungarians, koreans, and in few more country telling they are wholly mixed with Mongolian blood. Some Russians say themselves we are nothing if we hadn't Mongolian blood. For sure Mongolia is biggest spread nation in the world. estimately half of the people of the earth had mixed with Mongolian blood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.170.81.210 (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Utterly ridiculous. Seek psycho-therapy. HammerFilmFan (talk) 19:29, 14 August 2010 (UTC)HammerFilmFan
if huns are mongolians ,then greeks , bulgarians and germans are mongolians too since both bulgaria and byzantine become a mongolian state under Gengis khan. not to forget that Huns were older than mongolians and they were never lived under mongollian rule.we are talking about real history right here.not some made up mytology nations by european empires. Huns are older than mongolian nation. please check out anav culture in asia and turkemenistan . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.173.31.38 (talk) 11:12, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
continuing from archive 3. from the quote: "I agree in that it is a little simplified but in the wikipedia article it says completely the opposite saying that the names and words in Turkish were very small but if the whole Otto Maenchen-Helfen's study is analysed even in the conclusion it is possible to observe that the number of names in Turkish is greater than the names in other languages in addition to the tribal names. ..." - 190.26.88.84 (talk) 15:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Good questions. First of all, let me say that no one can really know what language Huns spoke until we see some actual and factual written words and then it is pretty easy to link it with like Mongolian language words. I read little about the Mongols and other nomadic confederations, and the following things basically apply to all Central Asian nomads (variations exists among certain ethnic groups): - Initial leaders in the 1-2 generations speak the original language and customs. That is if Huns are Mongolians, they spoke a "Mongolian language." These leaders will use translators to issue order to their soldiers or guides, but the core group of leaders are basically an original stock of people speaking their own language and eating their own food. After they finished raiding, they will settle and intermarry with the locals and produce children and those children will learn the local language and way of life, because if these children are different from the locals, it is hard for them to rule once their father/grandfather dies. So they blend in. Their original language will basically go away in a generation or two. For instance, in Golden Horde it is hard to pinpoint when the Mongol people went, because their children adopted Russian names and gradually disappeared. Their appearance will also change because of local marriage. - I think the Mongolian region for centuries have produced a lot of raiders. For instance Avars are thought to be Rourans that went west. There is thinking that Xiongnu split into 2 major groups and one going to the west. There has always been tendency of tribes/people going from east to west for a long time. There is no consensus on what Xiongnu spoke, because there is almost no written records, but Middle Mongolian is pretty close and understandable to a person that speaks Mongolian. Little variations, but can figure it out if people pay little attention while listening.
I'm not really informed on Huns warfare in Europe per se, but I can give little info on their origin, movement, habitat and thinking. These are just my opinions. 67.177.203.207 (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Botteville, I hope my recent edit answers your comment. Richard Keatinge (talk) 11:18, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
The debate is somewhat academic and irrelevant. Because, it has been said, there is not enough evidence to show exactly what language the "Huns" spoke. And the fact of the matter is that, whatever Huns we know from clear historical evidence suggests that East Gothic was spoken during the Hun Empire Hxseek (talk) 11:32, 16 October 2010 (UTC).
True Hxseek (talk) 03:27, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I totally agree with you Richard but the main problem here is that its just impossible to claim the Huns as Mongols since the Mongols were not around during that era, the chance that the Huns were Turkic is very high in this case. Redman19 (talk) 21:49, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
They are related with the Category:History of the Turkic people, not Category:Turkic peoples itself. Takabeg (talk) 06:23, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Whats the difference actually? I suggest you should not remove categories until there is solid proof. Redman19 (talk) 09:25, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I removed it for now, I hope you can provide me sources stating the opposite thing, since there are many sources that are backboning my edits. Redman19 (talk) 09:52, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
redman19 your intentions are good but i think takabeg is right, huns are ancient people, there many sources stating they are turkic thats correct but they just dont fit in the turkic peoples category because they were ancient people. the turkic people article already mentions huns so there is no need to mention them here also as turkic. 188.202.146.57 (talk) 11:23, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Good point, the mongols came much later than the hun. This is another 'lying' article on wikipedia. The hunnic empire was established in russia way before 400 bce when the romans created rome. Simply put the huns are the direct caucasian ancestors of the Sumerians whom than created the Greek race to harrass mankind. Jesus and teh jews (note: jews are hybrids of huns and the unknown, possibly why people consider as alien or divine because of 'human-like' appearance) are simply hunnic settlers from the ancient past, however they settled in israel a long time ago as hermits because Darius (another direct decadent) invaded the middle-east and spread the contaminated hindu indian caucas germ or gene. Hence hun=hungarian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.65.79.114 (talk) 20:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
2010 Jan 16-17, I have improved the formatting of footnotes and bibliography — they were in an atrocious state. Some of the principles used are antiquated. Aside from that, they were carelessly done: information omitted (e.g., publisher; year), entire publication citations repeated from one footnote to another. The omission of page numbers in footnotes — of which I found close to two dozen examples, it seems — is an academically irresponsible practice; and it provokes the suspicion that many of these sources were not really consulted, or that much of the article text has been copied from other publications.
It is extremely contradictory to Wikipedia practice, and to common professional practice, to put multiple citations into a single footnote (it used to be standard practice, a generation ago, and some Luddites in philosophy and literature still do it). Give each citation its own footnote.
At least one source is a blog. I have moved in out of the bibliography and into External Links. Hurmata (talk) 19:24, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I was interested to see more of this map, but unfortunately whoever posted it appears to have cropped or truncated it. Parts are missing, including part of the key to identification of smaller states. Does anyone know where is the original of this map? Can it be restored to its full extent? Ptilinopus (talk) 23:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
The maps, as they were, were highly questionable. Simply - the Huns did not rule Saxony, Denmark, the southern Baltic or anything east of the Dnieper-Don interfluvial (ie the Huns did not rule central Asia); according to literary and archaeological evidence. The old maps were based on Spehperhds historical atlas (made in the 1970s)- which has been affirmed to be of questionable historical precision, and John Man's book which is more a pop-history book for the everyday reader. Thus I present a map based on Peter Heather's recent work. Slovenski Volk (talk) 05:39, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Hunnu empire founded in 209 BC by Modun Shianyu. Lasted for 302 years ended in 93 AC. The rise of the empire was in 198 when the Hunnu were contolling the Silk Line which was across the mongolian gobi dessert, had 50 years peace treaty with the Han nation (China). Han nation were paying gold, silk, rice and corn in order to keep the peace treaty. The Hunnu empire had 3 provinces where the center was controlled by the King Shaniyu, right part was controlled by the Luli wan(Lord), where the left part was controlled by the Juki wan(lord). This were the time Mongolians developed the grouping of the population, later made more complex and divided again in each peace. There were 24 Tumts(plural) of population leaded by the King and the lords straights. 1 Tum is equal to 10.000 in Mongolian language, tumt means group holds 1 tum people. Later Chinggis Haan developed myangat(1000 in Mongolian) Zuut(100 in Mongolian) Aravt(10 in Mongolian). In Chinese notes it is said that Hunnu's Military system was at the most neat at the times of Modune. At the utmost powerful stage Hunnu's land were to the North Baigal(nature in Mongolian) Nuur(lake in mongolian), to the East till Ordos(Tan empire), to the West bordering with Tureks(Turks) and to the south till the great wall. At the times of Hunnu the Han(China) nation first founded as well, strictly under control of Hunnu's every year they had to pay goods in order to keep peace treaty and gifted severel Yanji and Gunji (both means the princess) to the Hunnu Kings. Second king was Tumen Shianiyu the son Modun Shianiyu.
Origin
Noted in chinese books, there were lot of individual small tribes lived in Mongolia, most of them had a trading relation with the China around 1000 BC. In 300-400 BC amongst the Tribes of Mongolia there were Alliance established between the most powerful 2 tribes Hunnu and Dunhu. The Allience had become powerful in year 310 BC. To become a known country the rivalry of the Wans(lords) in order to get the political power helped very much. And in the year 209 BC Modune Shanniu succeeded to build an empire known in asia as Hunnu, in western as Huns. Both word Hunnu and Hun means human in mongolian language.
The fall Fall of the Empire first took stage in 48 AC when the Sumbe(often reffered as sianbi) tribe started competed for political power and eventually Divided Hunnu nation in 2 North and South. South side leaded by the Sumbe allied with the Han(china). Later in 93 AC Sumbe succeeded to defeat the Hunnu and later established the Second Empire ever existed on Mongolian territory called Sumbe(siyanbi) country.
Later after the fall of Sumbe the Turegs(Turkish) started to appear in Mongolian territory and founded turkish dominated 3rd country called Tureg country.
As always been the rival and the neighbour of the Mongolia, the Chinese recorders lived recorded all the activities with the Mongolians from time to time.
There should be no further argument about Huns were Turkish or something. Because ancestor, land, language, culture, religion in every single aspect turkish got their own and so does the Mongolians. Turkish and Mongolians were just similar two nationals existed at the same time at different place. The Mongol empire were the 8th or 9th country founded on Mongolian territory which was the most powerful of the Mongolians.
As a order 1st Hunnu 2nd Sumbe 3rd Tureg 4th Uighur 5th Ih nirun(jujan) and several other nationals had succeeded to build their empire on Mongol land. However most of them are the ancestors of the present day Mongolians not the Turks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.92.51 (talk) 21:07, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
There is no way to say for one hundred percent sure that the Huns were turks or mongols. Nobody can go back to that time and test their DNA. Mongolians and Turks may have 1 ancestor, because in modern days turkic and mongolian there are lots of similarities and even exact same words for the same meanings. Also in many turkic books and stories cites that mongol and turks share the same ancestor. Even i heard some turkish people saying there is no turks without mongolian blood.
1. Huns can have same ancestor with the turks but long lost, because after the Hunnu(Huns) empire fallen the turks were the 3rd to establish their own empire defeating the Sumbe (referred as Xianbi the second empire built on mongol lands) who were the descendants of huns on mongol land. The empire were called tureg. 2. Huns can be derived from native herder tribe that they are the first peoples to gather around to build community on mongol land. Because the significance and markings of civilised human community starts not long before the huns started to leave their footprints, which counts way before 500 BC. 3. There are several chinese writings and books survived till now quoting that china had interest of trading with the nomadic herders of the north. Furthermore it is marked around that time the starting of the hunnu empire around 500BC.
Due to its long existence chinese writers had noted lots of stories, tales and even the book that shows the trading bill has survived till today. It is the best evidence because it is written and kept that we can know what happened. European people knows Atilla as the resemblance of huns. But according to the history Atilla was the leader of the group which was exiled due to conflict with the higher ups. But original stories of huns came thousand years before Atilla.
I don't really believe in doctors profs talking about history as they have seen it. But what i understand is they just grow the theories. Besides some of them deeply believes in their theories whilst the evidence and recordings the hard evidence still lies in the locked libraries in china. They are just peoples who are 2 thousand years younger and born with 2 thousand miles away and talk like they have seen it.
I don't also believe in quran of muslim or what was there punjabi or panjabi, any other religious books because they are like a whole planet away from huns and or mongolians. Which could have fell from sky who knows on the planet earth that i lives on i haven't seen and it is not possible to book to fell from nowhere of the space and land securely on human hands. Or maybe god were too racist to give one to mongolians or to some other peoples. God in the first language of the world and in latin referes to Sun. Some people are just too retarded to understand that.
The evidence was released but i couldn't remember when or how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.144.236 (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
At this diff I have reverted a long essay-style series of comments. Most of the few substantive and referenced points from it are already appropriately mentioned in the article. Richard Keatinge (talk) 11:58, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
There appears to be an inconsistency between the article on Tengrism and this article. If the Huns can be associated with Tengrism, why is it not mentioned here, and if the evidence is insufficient than the article on Tengrism needs to be significantly reformed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.123.31.144 (talk) 19:06, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
I think it can be included here as well. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 19:09, 20 April 2013 (UTC).
The Tengrism article does indeed need significant reform, but as I know almost nothing on the subject I'll leave that to others. I have removed an unreferenced statement about the religion of the Huns (absolutely nothing is known of the religion of the Huns) from there and suggest that we avoid repeating speculation, especially speculation with nationalist overtones. Richard Keatinge (talk) 21:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Update: I have recently addressed this on the Tengrism article, and a user there has recognized the problem as being on their end and removed the parts pertaining to the Huns. If there is no reason to think that there is evidence supporting the connection, it seems that the issue has been solved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.17.55.148 (talk) 02:11, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia & Huns Dear Wikipedia, Wiki does not mention the traces of Huns in Denmark and the rest of Scandina-via. Since middle of 1990´s Danes have been digging in the Gudmekomplex, i.- e. SE Fynen, Denmark. Lotte Hedaeger, professor and boss at the Archaeological department of University of Oslo has written about it in "Iron Age Myth and Materiality. An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400 – 1000."11:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)217.210.11.66 (talk) Routledge, London and New York. 2011.
Here she penetrates the Hunnic influence in Scandinavia during a long time, es-pecially in the ruling families. She also discusses Niels Lukmans dissertation “[3]” Copenhagen 1943, and consider it unfair that it has not been thoroughly discussed. It was far too good to be met by silence. Lukman has done a masterly presentation, she says, of Scandinavian history AD 1 – 800. There you have two books, good science both, and Wiki has not even mentioned the topic.
Besides this there are interesting dating-questions too. Every time you mention the Huns you say that they arrived in Europe 300 + something. The halls at Gudme were first built 100 – 200 and the extraordinary temple at Uppåkra in very south of Sweden was built AD 100+. Both Gudme and Uppåkra are in Eu-rope.
Evidently they first turned north towards Scandinavia, established themselves, consolidated and built a center at Fynen before Uldin attacked in the south. He failed, but so what? They attacked again, won, and moved the center to Hunga-ry. And there is a lot of supporting evidence.
It is a too good a story to treat it as you do.
Wilhelm Otto wilhelm.otto@telia.com
The numbered legend in the bottom right of the map is cut, only numbers 1 to 5 are fully legible, and numbers 21 to 25 in part. Is somebody in the condition of providing a full image of this map? Thanks. Salut †--Jgrosay (talk) 13:56, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Bold text== Merge Proposal ==
I propose the merging of the contents in the Hunnic Empire into the Huns article. The main reason for this is that the two subjects are closely related to each other and overlap on another in a timeline. The Hunnic Empire is also a relatively small article and provides no information that the Huns page couldn't. Please vote with your reason for supporting or opposing the merge. Khazar (talk) 04:31, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=vRwS6FmS2g0C&pg=PA229&dq=gujjars+are+ahirs&hl=en&ei=KQB_Td2zMsfirAeyxvm5Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=gujjars%20are%20ahirs&f=false http://books.google.co.in/books?ei=bmeVTbq_Cs7srQfPqYXsCw&ct=result&id=gxA3AAAAIAAJ&dq=abhira+history+of+rajputs&q=abhiras+
A history of Panjabi literature (1100-1932): a brief study of reactions between Panjabi life and letters based largely on important MSS & rare and select representative published works, with a new supplement-page-177
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction_2 Kortoso (talk) 16:28, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Now that the two articles have been merged, there is an enormous amount of repetition, with timelines moving backwards and forwards, creating an extremely confusing article. A complete rewrite of the history section is required to produce a narrative that makes any sense to the reader. Skinsmoke (talk) 08:39, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Well said Richard, and thanks for your excellent work on the article.► Philg88 ◄ talk 09:14, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
the Huns were Turkic peoples.It is really weird that the author avoids that fact.There are a lot of evidence that they were Turks.Such evidence is clear in the chinese chronicles as well as roman and byzantine chronicles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.245.223.136 (talk) 21:19, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
http://www.romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Gth_Goth_35
Rajmaan (talk) 21:49, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
To be a little more exact, a second-hand physical description of Attila himself, by a Roman Goth who thought he could remember every bit of one Roman historian. Not very good but it's what we have. We use it appropriately in Attila, rather than here. Richard Keatinge (talk) 07:20, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Any thought to placing the "Origin" section last rather than first? I think it's standard encyclopedic practice to lead with what you know, and discuss controversies later. Remember the audience. Kortoso (talk) 22:11, 17 October 2014 (UTC)