Sabir is also another name for the Mediterranean pidgin language Lingua Franca, from its word sabir, "to know". The Sabir people inhabited the Caspian Depression prior to the arrival of the Avars. They appear to have been a Turkic people, possibly of Hunnic origin. "The name Sabir has been linked by some scholars with the name Siberia (where it may have been an alternative name for the Ugrian-speaking Mansi)", or even with the far-eastern Sibe Manchus of Xinjiang.Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Blackwell Publishing, 1998. Page 279. The Sabir lived predominantly in the Pontic steppe region bounded on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the west by the Black Sea and on the south by the Caucasus Mountains. Priscus mentions that the Sabir attacked the Saragur, Urog and Unogur tribes in 461 AD as a result of having themselves been atta

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