Your challenge is to keep the culture of the Huns around to some extent until at least 1000 CE. The POD must be after the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains.
AHC: Preserve Hunnic culture
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What Hunnic culture defines might be hard to define for they consisted of many peoples and also foederati.
Does it have to be Western 'Hun' culture or can it be done in the east? The best situation long term, is certainly for the solidification of the Hepthalite Empire, as the successor realm of the Kushan empire. Especially considering that your POD is after the Western Huns have failed to break the Western Empire and thus placed them and their vassals as lords of Germania-Gaul.
Nope. IIRC links between the Magyars/Hungarians and Huns aren’t supported by research.
Yep. It's impossible to disprove that some individuals from Hunnic groups settled amongst later peoples like the Avars or Magyars, but that does not historical continuity make.
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It might be easier to get the Gothic or Alanic peoples to survive, but to have them refer to themselves as Huns and claim descent from Attila. Hunnic noble dynasties could survive within the Kingdom of Alania or in a consolidated more eastern Gothic kingdom (that prevents the Visigoths or Ostrogoths from migrating so far west).
Sort of like how the Irish are genetically probably a majority non-Celtic group but are linguistically Celts and describe themselves as such?
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No. They aren't. Some ancestors of today's Hungarians/Magyars come from tribes of Hunnic confederations but they were distinct in themselves. The old Huns quickly melted into other groups like Scythians, Sarmatians, Turks, Slavs and Germanic peoples. So the present day Hungarians are more Ugric, Scythian, Slavic, Celtic, Germanic and Roman than Hunnic. The East Asian component had simply dissolved into the settled populations.
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I'm not sure about Irish being genetically non-Celtic, but something along those lines. The Huns could also incorporate Bolghars, Avars, and Khazars later which could ironically make them more Hunnic linguistically. (Because the lingua franca of the Huns was Gothic)