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Not necessarily, even though even I have some reservations nowadays about whether Hungarian already arrived in the Carpathian Basin before the Magyar Conquest. I am still waiting on more debates and arguments from historians about this topic before I make up my mind, since these archeogentic results about admixture of Conquest Era Magyars are very fresh and haven't read any critical reviews from Academic members yet. I mean it is still quite probable that Hungarian was the language of these Magyar conquerors, since they migrated from a region (Volga-Ural) which is not far away from other Finno-Ugric speaking people. They had to their North and West Finno-Ugric neighbors and to their East and South Turkic neighbors. The theory that they are the result of the mixing of these two people is still pretty valid, especially that genetically they were the closest to Volga Tatars and Bashkirs who themselves have significant Finno-Ugric characteristic.
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