kingdavid
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There are over 600 inscriptions of the Messapic language in Italy, most densely concentrated in the heel. Their distribution is in the image below.
Messapic was a non-Italic, non-Greek, non-Germanic, language.
These regions where these inscriptions appear are the regions that are most densely concentrated with E-V13 today. This is modern distribution, so it must be taken with a grain of salt, but nonetheless very relevant to the question of E-V13's entry in Italy.
I think not considering Messapics is not warranted by the evidence. They are much more likely than Ostrogoths to have brought it.
From Austrian linguist, who studied paleo-balkan languages and old Albanian, in 2018:
"Albanian is closely related to Illyrian and Messapic (a language spoken in Southern Italy but originally of Balkan origin)"
Page 1790
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Joachim Matzinger
2018
sound logic you are correct
that people should also consider that as a possible source
for spread of e-v13 to italy
but what would explain the 10% e-v13 in lombardia ?