Ancient linguistic clues reveal that the European Huns had Siberian roots

Published on June 20, 2025

New linguistic analysis by researchers including Dr Simon Fries, Researcher in Comparative Philology in the Faculty of Classics and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, has provided compelling evidence that two powerful ancient nomadic groups - the European Huns and the Xiongnu of Inner Asia - spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language. The findings significantly bolster longstanding hypotheses about the shared origins of these peoples, offering a linguistic dimension to earlier archaeological and genetic links.
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