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Scythian / Hunnic

Attila the Hun raising Aquileia to the ground

Tancredi Scarpelli, 1930

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Flag of a Modern Day Hunnic Empire

from /r/vexillology Top comment: I designed this flag for an alternate history scenario I’ve been working on. I thought the flag of the [Great Hunnic Empire](https://balkanflaghistory.org/hordes) was a very neat flag, but I didn’t think it would fit in with modern flags. It’s pretty simple, but I’m very happy with how it turned out.

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A Year in Language, Day 119: Hunnic

Hunnic is a now extinct language once spoken in the Hunnic empire. If you remember Attila the Hun from the history books, that’s who were talking about. It was spoken between the 4th and 5th centuries CE. Despite their expansive conquest and influence no direct attestation of the language remains.

The entire corpus of the Hunnic language consists of three words recorded by Roman historians; “medos”, meaning mead, “kamos” a barley drink, and “strava” a funerary feast. The rest comes from the names of people and places within the Hunnic dominion. This is further complicated by the fact that the secondary de facto language of the empire was Gothic, an East Germanic language, meaning that what Hunnic terminology we do have or can reconstruct sometimes turns out to be Gothic (or even Slavic or Latin) instead.

The most popular theory currently is that the Huns spoke a Turkic language, or a Mongolic language with Turkic influence, which matches both the profile for the geographic origin of the Huns (the central Asian steppes), and lines up with proposed analogs to known Hunnic terms in other Turkic languages. Despite the name and contemporary folklore, the people and language of modern day Hungary are not related to the Huns of Attila.

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