Origins
The origins of the Huns that swept through Europe during the 5th Century remain unclear; they may have been connected with the Xiongnu and the later Northern Xiongnu, defeated and dispersed by China some three centuries before. However, some historians consider them as a group of nomadic tribes from Central Asia with mixed origin.. The region roughly parallels that of the earlier Scythia. There was a Hunnic language, and Gothic seems also to have been used as a lingua franca.
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