hrvclv
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- Location
- Auvergne, France
- Ethnic group
- Arvern
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-U152-DF103
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H1bm
Because there are only two Western IE language families - proto-(Italo-)Celtic and proto-Germanic, and each can be associated to U152 and U106 respectively. As mentioned earlier, DF27 and L21 don't seem to be directly related to either of these modern language families. Perhaps at some point they were, but there is no evidence for this. The Celtic languages must have spread from a later Central European source, and the only real candidate for that is U152. And I'm just assuming U106 is responsible for Germanic speech, but it seems about right
You are ignoring the Q/P Celtic split. And the fact that no matter how you look at it Gaulish P Celtic (U152) is much closer to Irish Q Celtic (L21) than Latin (U152?) was ever shown to be to either. I agree that several waves of Celts came to Britain and brought distinct variants of the language. But I think you are over-simplifying things a bit.