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I'm curious to learn what time frames do you have in mind. Ptolemy already wrote of Khunnoi (possibly Huns) in second century. Huns were heterogenous groups o

I'm curious to learn what time frames do you have in mind. Ptolemy already wrote of Khunnoi (possibly Huns) in second century. Huns were heterogenous groups of many subjugated tribes of various races and ethnicities. What they had in common was that the ruling elite claimed tradition with Xiongnu or their political system resembled it. What I thought Finns were Tacitus's Fenni, who were likely Germanic and have somewhat acquired the language from their conquerors who came from steppe. I'm not referring to Attilla's huns. There were nations coming from steppe for centuries prior. I speculate, we may never know for sure of course.

dogma1138 6y ago
~4000 years. The Huns or any other tribal group brining things through conquest doesn’t makes that much sense. Finnic/Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish and Estonian), Sami languages and (true) Ugric like Hungarian and Khanty are distinct groups that while might have had a common ancestor that would be predating the Huns even further (~7000 years ago) then you have Samoyedic languages which are also Uralic but tend to be looked at even more separately due to the differences despite Samoyedic meaning Sami people. Samoyedic is the language used by the native Siberian and Russian Arctic tribes basically the Inuit/First Nations of Russia. If anything I would bet on the fact that it’s more likely that the Uralic languages spread from the Eurasian Arctic south into Siberia and the Ural during say the last ice age than they were brought into Europe by the Huns circa -+couple of centuries 0AD.