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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Attila the Hun wasn't Hungarian. Hungarians are of central asian descent. They are not slavic.
No google or wiki - I think I'm right, but not positive.
ETA: I've checked wiki. Huns were not Hungarians, who were/are Magyars.
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Without checking, I am almost sure you are wrong. Hungarians are not considered Slavs. They are not part of the Slavic union and they speak Magyar or Hungarian (same thing). The Romans are considered Slavic either (although, as I stated a lot of Slavs intermarried with the Romanians) because Romanian is a Latin derived language just like French, Spanish or Italian. As I said, this is because Romania is where all the Roman soldiers settled and their tradition were hard to push out.
The Slavic languages are Czech, Slovak, Serbo Croatian, Macedonian (obviously not the Macedonian Alexander the Great Spoke hence the fury over the name), Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Byelorussian and a few others.
Hungarians, Magyars and Huns are all the same ethnic group and they are the same people that fought with Attila the Hun. The Hun language is known as Magyar or Hungarian. The only other languages in Europe similar to Hungarian are Finnish and Estonian because they are also derived from Asiatic nomads. These languages are related to Turkish and Mongolian which are all collectively known as Turfan languages. Turfan languages are very different from the other traditional European languages: Slavic, Greek, German, Celtic or the Romance languages.
The Huns blended in in other parts of Europe and Asia but they held their identity in what is considered Hungary today. The Roma (or the Gypsies) are actually later migrants from Northern Inda and Persia (much later than the early Aryan migrantions which came before the Roman empire, not after) and don't have any relation to Atilla (at least that is what I believe the latest genetic tesing has shown).
