What linguistic famiky did the Huns and Avars belong to?
Some claim they were of Mongolic, Turkic, Iranian, Uralic or even Yenisseian stock...
Some claim they were of Mongolic, Turkic, Iranian, Uralic or even Yenisseian stock...
What linguistic famiky did the Huns and Avars belong to?
Some claim they were of Mongolic, Turkic, Iranian, Uralic or even Yenisseian stock...
There is a reason for that. We don't know. Even if we did know find a language from the time period, it dosen't mean it would be a smoking gun because it is possible the Avars could have spoke multiple languages anyway. There are many people that existed in antiquity that we know nothing about beside their names. The Avars just happen to be one of the last cases of these types of mysteries. They came from the Eurasian steppee, that is all we know for sure. There is a lot of speculation but noting definitive.Some claim they were of Mongolic, Turkic, Iranian, Uralic or even Yenisseian stock...
Your jumping the gun by connecting the Caucasian Avars to the Pannonian Avars. The name could be a coincidence.Avar, on the other hand, is believed to be a Caucasian language from what I have found.
From what I looked at, it seemed Slavic was becoming the lingua franca of the Avar Khaganate. Had it continued to exist, we could could have had a Slavic ethnic group develop and take the name Avar just like the Slavic Bulgarians took the name of the Turkic Bulgars.However, I will also point out that many of the people who belonged to the Hunnic Empire/Confederation likely spoke Gothic, and Gothic was quite possibly the lingua franca, insofar as one existed.