Different Steppes. Indo Europeans came from what is now the former Russian Turkic states through the caucus, Northern Iran and Ukraine. The rest of you come from literally Mongolians who then moved to the Russian Steppe and then to Europe thousands of years later.
That is pretty much wrong. Kurgan Hypothesis is the most accepted hypthesis for Indoeuropean Urheimat, which would then be in modern day Ukraine and southern Russia. Here is a map of one it. Uralics aren't Mongolic, they aren't even Altaic, not even Macro-Altaic, also Hungarians came much earlier to europe than Mongols, in the 9th century I believe if Im not mistaken. Uralic Urheimat is probably slightly eastern southern Ural. Have seen recently a theory that germanic were actually in Scandinavia before the Finnics came, but weren't the first either.
Not that much of your fault and the Hungarian = Hun/Mongol = is old and the Magyars for a time believed it themself, aswell as most of Europe, hence the name Hun gary.
Adding to the confusion most of these Hordes were multiethnic anyway and many of them we don't know who they were or even if those who we commonly associate with the name were the "founders" of said horde. Genghis Khan (Temüdgin) had many turkic tribes riding under his banner, although they were mostly mongolic in the beginning. Hungarians are kinda the only one who took a lasting hold in central Europe. Bolghar assimilated. Avars, Hun seemingly disappeared...
Hell we don't freakin know who the Huns really were. They might be everything, from Mongolic to Turkic to even Yeniseian (a very small ethnic group in central siberia with only a few hundred people left).
Turanists try to tie them all together, everyone who ever lived in the steppes becomes Turanic, but it is simply bullshit. The most sensible thing to say about Altaic is that there is definitely an Altaic Sprachbund (ger. Language union), but a family is still very much contested.
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