torzio
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- North East Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- T1a2 - SK1480
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- H95a
If there is a consensus, it is that Liburnian is non-IE. The islands of Dalmatia (prior to Illyrian expansion) would have been pretty good refuge for the seafaring coastal inhabitants when the major IE wave swept over Europe in the BA so I consider it plausible. I do not consider it plausible that non-IE survived in Tuscany when there isn't any especially good reason why that might be. I think the Tyrrhenians and Ligurians derive from an Adriatic group like the Liburnians that effectively formed a wedge between an Italo-Venetic continuum *after* the Italo-Venetic migration into the peninsula.
Liburnian looks like old-italic pre-roman times in its syntax