Langauge:Hunic and modern day Magyar (Hun

Hungarian is generally believed to be a member of the  (Ugric languages, a sub-group of the Finno-Ugric language family, which in turn is a branch of the  (A family of Ural-Altaic languages) Uralic languages.
There are various alternative theories about the origins of Hungarian language.

For many years (from 1869), it was matter of dispute whether Hungarian was a Finno-Ugric language, or was more closely related to some  (A subfamily of Altaic languages) Turkic languages, a controversy known as the "Ugric-Turkish war". It is only in the discipline of linguistics that the "victory" of the Finno-Ugrists can be described as more or less complete, due to a lot of evidence from the languages themselves. However, significant evidence in some other sciences, including  (The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms) genetics and mainly  (The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures) archeology, still clashes with this theory. Finno-Ugrist scientists explain this phenomenon by stating that the origin of the language is not necessarily equal with the origin of the people, genetically. Thus the language is Finno-Ugric, some scientists say, but according to genetics and anthropology, the Hungarian people show more similarity to others than to the Finns (who are like the Swedes on these criteria): to Germans and Slavs (as some Finno-Ugrists, e.g. I. M. Szab�, say), or to the Turks or other peoples (as other scientists, e.g. I. Kiszely, say). The lack of serious direct ( archeological) evidence also leads to the questioning of Finno-Ugric theory time and time again.