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Originally Posted by Vitor
The Portuguese are even more celtic than the Spanish, look at the "I" ratio, that is interesting...
Of course only if that "I" is celtic/indo-european related, I think it's!
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The main tribe in Portugal were the Lusitani, and these are thought to have been by linguistics an early, pre-Celtic Indo-European migration. As a whole, Spain was composed of a larger numbers of tribes, and those in the East and South-East coastal areas, the Iberid tribes, would add non celtic weight to the overall composition of the Peninsula.
However I don't know if that group I is Celtic. And we must take into account that 'celticness' in Spain as with in other regions (including the British Isles) was more of a cultural spread and assimilation among R1b peoples than an ethnical spread and adstratum to the R1b subtrata.
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