From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   This came up on Language Log:   
      
   "Linguistic Evidence Suggests that XiÅ   
   ng-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 XiÅ   
   ng-nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia   
     from the third century BC to the second century AD. XiÅ   
   ng-nú   
     descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European   
     Huns. It has been argued that the XiÅ   
   ng-nú spoke an Iranian,   
     Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic   
     affiliation of the XiÅ   
   ng-nú and the Huns is still debated. Here,   
     we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains   
     does indeed suggest that the XiÅ   
   ng-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.)   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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