Editing Hungarian language (section)

====Historical controversy over origins====
Today, the consensus among linguists is that Hungarian is a member of the [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] family of languages.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Uralic-languages | title=Uralic languages {{pipe}} Britannica | date=21 September 2023 }}</ref>

The classification of Hungarian as a Uralic/Finno-Ugric rather than a [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] language continued to be a matter of impassioned political controversy throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. During the latter half of the 19th century, a competing hypothesis proposed a Turkic affinity of Hungarian, or, alternatively, that both the Uralic and the Turkic families formed part of a [[superfamily (linguistics)|superfamily]] of [[Ural–Altaic languages]]. Following an academic debate known as ''Az ugor-török háború'' ("the Ugric-Turkic war"), the Finno-Ugric hypothesis was concluded the sounder of the two, mainly based on work by the German linguist [[Josef Budenz]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Marcantonio |first1=Angela |last2=Nummenaho |first2=Pirjo |last3=Salvagni |first3=Michela |year=2001 |title=The "Ugric-Turkic Battle": A Critical Review |url=http://www.kirj.ee/public/va_lu/l37-2-1.pdf |journal=Linguistica Uralica |volume=2 |access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>

Hungarians did, in fact, absorb some Turkic influences during several centuries of cohabitation. The influence on Hungarians was mainly from the Turkic [[Oghur languages|Oghur]] speakers such as [[Sabirs]], [[Volga Bulgaria|Bulgars]] of [[Atil]], [[Kabars]] and [[Khazars]]. The Oghur tribes are often connected with the Hungarians whose exoethnonym is usually derived from [[Onogurs]] (> (H)ungars), a [[Turkic tribal confederation]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Golden |first1=Peter B. |title=An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East |date=1992 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=9783447032742 |pages=102–103}}</ref> The similarity between customs of Hungarians and the [[Chuvash people]], the only surviving member of the Oghur tribes, is visible. For example, the Hungarians appear to have learned [[animal husbandry]] techniques from the Oghur speaking [[Chuvash people]] (or historically [[Suar Principality|Suvar people]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Danver |first1=Steven L. |title=Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues |date=2013 |publisher=Sharpe Reference, an imprint of M.E. Sharpe, Inc |location=Armonk, NY |isbn=978-1317464006 |page=282}}</ref>), as a high proportion of words specific to agriculture and livestock are of Chuvash origin. A strong Chuvash influence was also apparent in Hungarian [[burial]] customs.