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do you mean the asian Xiongnu or the so calles 'Huns' of Europe?there are serveral theories regarding the hunnic language. what were they really? also what did they look like ? i tend to imagine them as peoples similar to mongolians.
Judging by their descriptions in ancient texts, the safest explanation would place their origin in Central Asia, and made them a hybrid of Mongoloid-Caucasoid mixture. I imagine them as Tatars. Possibly related to Bulgars or Turks, and possibly part of Scytian empire/conglomerate of tribes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars
Charles Bronson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipka_Tatars
Changing names to english is sadly still ongoing process in Hollywood, though not that much as before. English names to cater english audience, for marketing reason.I remember watching House of Wax and his name was then Buchinski. Then in the Magnificent Seven he became a star. I watched all his violent after he married Jill Ireland.
we are talking about much later periods, and not the 2000-3000 BC.. 'European' Huns of Pannonia were at least 25% Asian. Before they absorbed Iranian Alan's and German Goth's the Asian component was larger. It was even larger before the Xiongnu retreat to lake Aral region or wherever. The Asian Xiongnu were mostly Asian. The West-Eurasian component was around 10%., basically assimilated IE relics of western Mongolia and those of the Yuehzi, who were forced to became Xiongnu.around 2000-3000 BC the asian steppe tribes had blonde hair and blue eyes and were genetically close to eastern europeans (lookup Afanasievo culture). Now granted that the huns appeared in europe around 400 AD, I still picture them looking like russians. dna was probably mostly R1a. And charles bronson is not mongoloid, lol.
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