Germanified Arian Christian Hunnic Empire

Couldn´t in the long term a successful European Hunnic Empire become much more influenced by Germanic subsidies ? Could there even be a Wulfila like Bishop who invents an alphabet that gives the Hunnic language a writeabe script ? Maybe Hunnic language written in Gothic runes ? A Hunnic Our Father and a Hunnic Church ? Wouldn´t the Huns become over the course of time much more integrated into the Germanic nation building ?
 
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Couldn´t in the long term a successful European Hunnic Empire become much more influenced by Germanic subsidies ? Could there even be a Wulfila like Bishop who invents an alphabet that gives the Hunnic language a writeabe script ? Maybe Hunnic language written in Gothic runes ? A Hunnic Our Father and a Hunnic Church ? Wouldn´t the Huns become over the course of time much more integrated into the Germanic nation building ?

What´s your opinion ?
 
I think it's pretty likely that the Huns would Germanize over time - even in OTL the court of Attila contained many Goths and other Germans. Considering much of their lands had previously been ruled by the Goths it seems fairly likely that Gothic would be the prestige language of the region - especially as it already was written down and had it's own writing system.

The biggest issue, I think, is keeping the Huns together long enough for them to Germanize. Empires of the sort the Huns created are not the longest lasting of things - and in OTL the entire structure fell apart within a few years after Attila's death.

So, how do we keep the Huns around along enough to adopt the Arian faith and Germanize?
 
I think it's pretty likely that the Huns would Germanize over time - even in OTL the court of Attila contained many Goths and other Germans. Considering much of their lands had previously been ruled by the Goths it seems fairly likely that Gothic would be the prestige language of the region - especially as it already was written down and had it's own writing system.

The biggest issue, I think, is keeping the Huns together long enough for them to Germanize. Empires of the sort the Huns created are not the longest lasting of things - and in OTL the entire structure fell apart within a few years after Attila's death.

So, how do we keep the Huns around along enough to adopt the Arian faith and Germanize?

We need a suitable succesor for Attila, so the Empire don´t fall apart so quickly. Also we should prevent a successful alliance against the Huns, maybe prevent an alliance between the Western Goths and Rome and avert the big defeat at the Catalaunian Fields. Maybe Attila lives longer and adapts the principles of Christianity earlier, maybe claiming himself to be a God-chosen leader among the Germannic tribes and gathers support by Arian Bishops traveling to him and be his advisors seeing him as a white hope.
 
There's claims that Attila comes from Gothic and means Little Father. If Hunnic kings used Gothic names, it could indicate that Gothic was widely used by the Huns at Attila time. I would not find it unlikely that the Huns having conquered, ruling and allied with a host of different Germanic tribes, most of them East Germanic could have adopted Gothic.

As for Hunnic survival, it would demand they moved out of the Pannovian plains. That's a area which get regularly overrun.

So my suggestion are that Attila end up attacking the East Romans, conquer Constantinoble, and settle the Huns and some subjected/allied Germanic tribes in northern Bulgaria and in Wallachia. As Attila dies, his heirs doesn't alienate the Gepids (who was the main henchmen of the Huns who kept everyone else in line). As the Huns need their Germanic subjects to keep control over their new possessions, the Huns and their Germanic subjects slowly assimilate into a new tribal confederation, who call themselves Huns but speak Gothic.
 
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Couldn´t in the long term a successful European Hunnic Empire become much more influenced by Germanic subsidies ? Could there even be a Wulfila like Bishop who invents an alphabet that gives the Hunnic language a writeabe script ? Maybe Hunnic language written in Gothic runes ? A Hunnic Our Father and a Hunnic Church ? Wouldn´t the Huns become over the course of time much more integrated into the Germanic nation building ?
Some nomadic tribal confederations had surprisingly long life.

Let's take Xiongnu (or Hsiung-nu) for example:

200 B.C.
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01 A.D.
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200 A.D.
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300 A.D.
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So, with some luck the Hunnic "Empire" might survive a couple of centuries longer. With good luck 500 years more.

There's a theory that the Huns were in fact descendants of the Northern Xiongnu who migrated westward, or that the Huns were using a name borrowed from the Northern Xiongnu, or that these Xiongnu made up part of the Hun confederation.

If that's true, the Huns might have brought a solid imperial tradition with them.
 
How many sons he might have had ? Maybe he should at least favour one "corwn-prince" and male clear, that there can be only one successor.

I doubt he could have enforced it from beyond the grave. In those days it was very much a case of "They should take who have the power, and they should keep who can".
 
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