Magyar Origins Magyar or Hungarian as it is known in English, belongs to the Finno-Ugric/Uralic-Altaic Family of languages. It is not an Indo-European tongue.
Magyars are a Turkic people who were nomads, horsemen and fierce warriors. They migrated into the Carpathian Basin during the ninth century from beyond the Caucasus.
The Hungarian nation was formed by the peoples which have settled in the Carpathian Basin in successive waves from approx.5000 BC up to the 13th c AD - From Anatolia, Transcaucasia and Mesopotamia, followed by the Turanian peoples of Eastern Europe and Central Asia: The Scythians (6th c BC), The Huns (5th c AD), The Avars (6th c AD), The Magyars (9th c AD), The Petchenegs (11th c AD), and The Cumans (13th c AD).
The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia, the creators of the first known civilization, also belonged to this Anatolian-Mesopotamian-Transcaucasian ethno-linguistic group.
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