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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: "Linguistic Evidence Suggests that =?UTF-8?Q?Xi=C5=8Dng=2Dn=C3=BA?=
 and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language"
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:43:42 -0000 (UTC)
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This came up on Language Log:

"Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same
Paleo-Siberian Language"
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
First published: 16 June 2025
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12321

  Abstract
  The Xiōng-nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia
  from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng-nú
  descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European
  Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng-nú spoke an Iranian,
  Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic
  affiliation of the Xiōng-nú and the Huns is still debated. Here,
  we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains
  does indeed suggest that the Xiōng-nú and the Huns spoke the same
  Paleo-Siberian language and that this was an early form of Arin,
  a member of the Yeniseian language family. This identification
  augments and confirms genetic and archaeological studies and
  inspires new interdisciplinary research on Eurasian population
  history.

(I'm in no position to judge this paper.  From the included references
it is clear that a lot has been written on this subject before.)

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de