Were the Huns Yeniseian or Turkic? Featuring CopperAxe

09/08/2025 1h 15min
Were the Huns Yeniseian or Turkic? Featuring CopperAxe

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Copper Axe from Musaeum Scythia and I delve into why the Xiongnu and Attila's Huns did not speak Yenisean and were not a Yenisean people.
This serves as our rebuttal to Svenja Bonmann's and Simon Fries' June article, where they theorized that the Xiongnu and Huns in Europe were Yenisean rather than Turkic at their core.
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00:00:00: Khan's Den is back... with a guest!00:02:20: A strange theory about the Xiongnu and Huns00:16:23: Who were the Yenisean peoples anyway?00:23:00: Steppe Peoples and the factors of Nomadism and Migration00:29:35: The Jie People in China: a key to the Yenisean-Xiongnu theory?00:40:34: DNA of the Steppes00:53:26: The Xiongnu-Turkic Connection00:59:33: The Political Argument for the Xiongnu-Turkic theory01:03:50: Conclusion and final remarks
#Xiongnu #Huns #Yenisean #Turkic #CopperAxe #Nomadism #Migration #SteppePeoples
See show notes: https://inlet.fm/khans-den/episodes/68978d5d9625ed7fe2ab8de3
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