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Actually I encoutered this hypotesis in several Hungarian sources but I am now on mobile and searching exact links is too complicated.
I dont think anyone disputes Magyars dwelt in Central Asia in one period of time and were culturally heavily influced by Turks, but I really dont believe they were originally Turkic. Here I support Stears view that they are Uralic people from Siberia that moved to steppe later and encountered Iranic and Turkic people there.
How do you comment oldest substrate in Hungarian language (for fishing hunting, stars and sky) is Ugric , not Turkic ?
I def. Support Ugric origins of proto Magyars but have no doubt Arpad conquerors had significant Turk, Aryan and probably Hun influences among them, possibly some other too.
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