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In the sequence of known Hungarian history prior to the Honfoglalas where is there any mention that by your account "Turkic Hungarians" encountered large groups of known Ugric tribe or tribes that might have made the known majority of Hungarian language Ugric.
In fact most of whats written about the Hungarians prior to the landtaking seems to be the opposite of this ... that Hungarians came from west Siberia near Permia moved gradualy further south where they encountered Iranic and Turkic peoples .
Then we have heard about there connection with the Khazars, from what we know Khazars were Turkic speakers not Uralic speakers ... so whom are the supposed significant Uralic/Ugric tribe who could have made Hungarians by majority Ugric speakers ? ...from current known Uralic tribes linguists suggest that the languages can be distantly closest to Hungarian are among the khanty - mansi ...and even in this case Hungarian is very different ... but we dont know of any existing Uralic group who is closer.
The idea that Hungarians were at first Turkic then later had Ugric influence does not seem to be based on any strong basis of evidence and as Blondie stated it seems unlikely that a military strong Turkic people whom are wondering around conquering would transfer their language from Turkic to Ugric as Turkic groups were stronger and more militarily advanced than Ugric groups in those times.
As for the genetics ... as I said Hungarians when they arrived were already a mixed people ... its today that some people wanna fit some label on them such as Turks ... in that time by their own identity we have no evidence to show they saw themselves as Turks and if they did then why dont Hungarians speak a Turkic language today ... we know they had some significant connections to well known Turkic tribes at time of the landtaking.
As for the points you made about others labelling them as Turks ... this is not necessarily proof ... as it can be also possible that they were observed when they were in alliance / under suzerainty with the Khazars whom were well known Turkic people at the time hence not unlikely that others assumed Hungarians were also Turkics ... if they at the time were part of Steppic political structures.
It wouldnt be the first time in history that other peoples scribes mislabelled people.
Then again according to the "Dual Conquest Theory" ... could be another way to look at it ... which the question as to whether the Conquerors of Arpad were even speaking same language of the Avar -Magyar whom were already present in Karpat Medence when Arpad arrived .
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