The Khuni, Huni or Chuni were a people of the North Caucasus during late antiquity.
The first contemporaneous reference to the Khuni may be by Dionysius Periegetes and Claudius Ptolemy's Geography, in the 2nd century CE, when they are said to be living near the Caspian Sea.
In 535 or 537, an Armenian missionary team headed by the bishop Kardost baptized many of the North Caucasian Huns.
[1] The Syriac source reporting this event also indicates that a writing system for Hunnic was developed.
Some modern Kumyk authors consider Caucasian Huns to be their ancestors; they also refer to their early medieval polity as Djidan (for reasons unknown).