In the 1920s, inspired by romantic nostalgia of this kind, the Hungarian linguist Louis Ligeti spent three years in Inner Mongolia studying the language and religion of another branch of the Hsiung-nu, the Mongols.
就因為這樣一份「浪漫情懷」，一九二○年代時，匈牙利語言學家李克第動身赴內蒙三年，研究匈奴的另一支脈蒙古人的語言、宗教，並學會了漢語。