Original sentence: Atwood rejects that identifiction because of the "very poor phonological match" between the three words.Christopher P.For instance, Xiungnu begins with a voiceless velar fricative, Huna with a voiceless glottal fricative; Xiungnu is a two-syllable word, but Xwn only has one syllable.Since Joseph de Guignes in the , historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the  with the Xiongnu ("howling slaves") who had invaded China from the territory of present-day Mongolia between the  and the.Étienne de la Vaissière both documents prove that Huna or Xwn were the "exact transcriptions" of the Chinese "Xiongnu" name
Edited sentence: Since Joseph de Guignes in the , historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the  with the Xiongnu who had invaded China from the territory of present-day Mongolia between the  and the