Surviving Material
Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names and three words of the language of the Huns, which has been studied for more than a century and a half. These sources do not give the meaning of any of the names, only of the three words.
There exists a large number of Western Eurasian inscriptions on vessels and other objects in several undeciphered and possibly related runiform scripts. Decipherment work is ongoing. It has been suggested by Professor Azgar Mukhamediev of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan that some of these inscriptions are in an unidentified Turkic language using a script he calls Turanian. The name of one of Attila's sons, Dengizich, supposedly appears as Khan Diggiz on one such vessel, thereby suggesting that the language is Hunnic.
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