Are Hungarian people of Asian decent?

Answer 1

The first two answers are wrong, and the third doesn't give the total picture.

Hungary is in Europe not Asia (!) Although the area was overrun by the Huns in around 380 AD, the name Hungary is not now thought to refer to Huns. After the Huns subsided, the country was overrun by other Germanic tribes. Hungary was then invaded by the Magyars (896 AD), a nomadic tribe from central Asia, who eventually established the Kingdom of Hungary. So the the Magyars were from Asia (but they were "Caucasian"), however, since Hungary has existed as a country in Europe for over 1000 years -- people today from Hungary would be considered of European Descent.

Also, the area was overrun by the Mongols and Conquered by the Turks, so I am sure some of that influence also exists in the gene pool.

The Hungarian language is classified as "Finno-Urgic a language unrelated to any neighboring language and distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. It is spoken by 95% of the people. Several ethnic minorities exist: Roma (Gypsys) (2.1%), Germans (1.2%), Slovaks (0.4%), Croats (0.2%), Romanians (0.1%), Ukrainians (0.1%), and Serbs (0.1%).[8]

Answer 2

The traditonal answer to that question has been a simple yes. However in reality, it is more complex.

The orignal Magyars or Hungarians did come from northwestern Siberia in Asia. They were close relatives of the Finno-Volgaic and Finno -Lappic peoples who extend into parts of northern Europe. .

After coming into Hungary in the 9th century A.D. , the Hungarians intermariried with the peoples already living in the Danube river basin. These people were a mixture of Celts, Roman colonists, East Germanic peoples and Slavs. They also absorbed some Turkic blood from their Khazar overlords.

Nevertheless, most Hungarians today look like typical northern and central Europeans. Only a few bear some resemblance to the peoples of Turkey and of Central and East Asia (i.e. Korea and Japan).

The Uralic superfamily from which the Hungarians are descended is one of the oldest ethnic and linguistic groups in the world. If the common ancestor of Indo-European, Turco-Tartar, Mongolian, Eskimo and Japanese / Korean was something like Uralic, it could be that the Hungarians have always been a people with both Caucasian and Asiatic-like features.

Answer 3

The name Hungary does not come from the Huns, although the Huns used the area (Pannonia) at the time for its base, due to its plains with bountiful grass for the horses. The word Hungary is from Onogur, a Turkic word meaning 10 tribes. The Hungarians (Magyars) were a Uralic people who migrated and raided Western and Central Europe, before settling into the present Hungary. Before their migration, they were joined by 2 Turkic tribes from the Khazar Empire. This was later supplemented by other Turkic tribes such as the Cumans etc. The Turkic tribes. before their migration from Mongolia and Northern China, were Asian in looks, but intermarried along the way with Iranic tribes. So in this way, you can say the Hungarians have an Asian heritage. But racially, they are very much Europeans since the original Magyars were few in numbers and there was heavy intermarriage with the surrounding Slavic, Germanic and Romanian peoples. Many Slovaks and Romanians also assimilated into the Hungarian nation.

Answer 4

No. Hungarian are no longer slavic people. The Hungarians comes from Finno-Ugric peoples and their unique place of foundation grew to become into close to the Ural mountains ( Europe). They migrated and of their new dwelling house they blended with Slavs.maximum folk of Hungarians is of eu organic and organic descent no longer Asian.

Answer 5

No Asian descent in Hungarians. I'm a 100% blue-eyed blond Hungarian. My parents speak fluent Hungarian and so do a lot of their Friends. I was raised and grew up surrounded by my heritage. All my four grandparents were from Hungary. Trust me, no Asian influence at all. :)

Answer 6

some of the population are of Asian descent...through the Huns

Answer 7

yes..hungary is in asia..