Originally Posted by
ixulescu
So who brought the Hungarian language, the hungarus or the conquerors?
IMO it was the conquerors who brought it. It had to be a population with significant amount of N haplogroup. Since the "Hungarus" people, as you describe them, don't seem to have a strong Uralic component, it makes it very likely that the conquerors brought that influence.
At the same time, if the language was that of a minority (the conquerors), it would have been very difficult to impose it to the majority, particularly to an illiterate population. Also, the conquerors didn't have the advantage the Slavs had, the use of a Slavic language in Church. So probably the Hungarian language was adopted slowly by creating a social ladder based on assimilation into the culture.
Related to this, certain Vlach groups under Hungarian influence used clan-based organization ("neam" means clan in Romanian, and is derived from Hungarian), and that practice survived for quite a long time during the medieval period in Moldova. Wallachians, although more Balkanic in nature, have always had a distaste for anything clan based, possibly a remnant of eastern roman culture.