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Originally Posted by MrFirst
Attila was a Turk?
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No, definitely not. There is some argument that Hunnish was a 'Turkic' language. Others only categorize it as belonging in the broader Altaic languages, which includes the Turkic languages. Note that in spite of the similarity 'Turkish' and 'Turkic' are not the same thing, 'Turkic' being a much broader term. The closest analogy that comes to mind is the difference between 'Slavic' and 'Russian'. So Russians are Slavs but all not all Slavs are Russian. In the same way Huns
might have been Turkic (then again, perhaps they weren't even Turkic but only part of an even broader linguistic grouping that included Turkic) but they were definitely not Turkish.