Editing Hunnic language (section)

==Possible script==
It is possible that a written form of Hunnic existed and may yet be identified from artifacts. Priscus recorded that Hunnic secretaries read out names of fugitives from a written list.{{sfn|Kim|2013|p=204}} [[Franz Altheim]] considered it was not Greek or Latin, but a script like the [[Oghur languages|Oguric Turkic]] of the [[Bulgars]].{{sfn|Kim|2013|p=204}} He argued that the runes were brought into Europe from [[Central Asia]] by the Huns, and were an adapted version of the old [[Sogdian alphabet]] in the Hunnic (Oghur Turkic) language.{{sfn|Kim|2013|p=55, 204}} [[Zacharias Rhetor]] wrote that in 507/508 AD, Bishop Qardust of [[Arran (Caucasus)|Arran]] went to the land of the Caucasian Huns for seven years, and returned with books written in the Hunnic language.{{sfn|Kim|2013|p=204}} There is some debate as to whether a [[Xiongnu]]-[[Xianbei]] runic system existed, and was part of a wider Eurasian script which gave rise to the [[Old Turkic alphabet]] in the 8th century.{{sfn|Kim|2013|p=205}}

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