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- Native to
- Hunnic Empire
- Region
- From Eurasian steppe into Europe
- Ethnicity
- Huns
- Extinct
- after 469
- Language family
- unclassified
- Iso 639 3
- xhc
- Linguist list
- xhc
- Glottolog
- None
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The Hunnic language, or Hunnish, was the language spoken by Huns in the Hunnic Empire, a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic tribal confederation which invaded Eastern and Central Europe, and ruled most of Pannonian Central Europe during the 4th and 5th centuries CE. A variety of languages were spoken within the Hun Empire. A contemporary report by Priscus has that Hunnish was spoken alongside Gothic and the languages of other tribes subjugated by the Huns.
As no inscriptions or whole sentences in the Hunnic language have been preserved, the attested corpus is very limited, consisting almost entirely of proper names in Greek and Latin sources.
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Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
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Extinct languages of AsiaExtinct languages of EuropeHunno-Bulgar languagesHunsLanguage articles with Linglist codeLanguage articles with unreferenced extinction dateLanguages attested from the 4th centuryLanguages extinct in the 6th centuryLanguages without Glottolog codeUnclassified languages of AsiaUnclassified languages of Europe