French DNA: What is the Genetic History of France?

[@celtichistorydecoded]

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[@MisterJovke]

Now 30% of those born in France are blacks and Arabs. Celtic DNA will be desecrated...

[@jaimequimaime-autrementnon2500]

Nous avons besoin d’une traduction , ou au moins , de sous titres en Français. Merci d’avance 😊

[@BrunodAgen]

4:55 The North vs. South genetic division is also perceptible by the linguistic division: French to the North of the Loire vs. Occitan to the South.

[@danythrinbell1596]

limousine provence , is ocitan iberian peoples gallos

[@tchop6839]

There are many Oïl languages in the north, not just French. It’s a whole continuum, wherein northern Occitan and southern Oïl are extremely similar, so it’s not as hard of a boundary as many claim. Also, the boundary between the two groups isn’t at the loire, it’s south of the loire

[@danythrinbell1596]

@@tchop6839 many people think is just language but is not the ocittan people are more iberian sifted in dna than the north french

[@trunk45000]

The famous narbonoids living south of the Loire versus the Nordics living in the north

[@ME-eu9sf]

@@trunk45000 Le fameux terme de Céline ah ah

[@therealmcgoy4968]

A descendant of the Norman’s here. My French Canadian ancestors mostly came from Normandy and Picardy. I think northern France was more influenced by the franks and the south more influenced by the Roman’s. Ofcourse French people are also heavily related to the Gauls both in the north and south. France is basically a mixture of these three cultures/groups throughout history. I don’t consider the Greeks because they did not culturally alter or really replace or make a significant contribution to the overall population of France. The Romans , celts and Germanics on the other hand are a different story.

[@OC.auvergne.limousin.]

North France = Franks and Burgundians (Germans) ; Occitania (South) = Greeks (East, Mediterranean coast), Basques (West, Aquitaine) and Romans.

[@Wazkaty]

Eh please, don't forget the Britons!

[@therealmcgoy4968]

What about the Norman’s?

[@Rouxgarou96]

⁠@@therealmcgoy4968Normans are a mix of Franks and Danish/Norwegian Vikings.

[@Rouxgarou96]

Also remember the North of France also has heavy Gallic origins as well as Frankish.

[@dravidiangmb7242]

Occitania Greek? Lol. Greeks look nothing like people in south of France.

[@CROM-on1bz]

The genetic background remains essentially Gallic and not only in genetics, in the language, the toponymy of the towns of the rivers and in this mosaic of territories so different which were the oppida of the more than one hundred Gallic peoples who shaped the France of today. So when our president contemptuously calls us "refractory Gauls", he unwittingly pays tribute to our ancestors.

[@fablb9006]

There were people living here before the arrival of the celts. Gaul was more a culturally celtized land rather than a land populated by « genetic celts ». Also, big parts of the french territory never were celtized (ex south of the Garonne river, pyrennees), or were relatively culturally celtized only (most of the areas south of the Loire river were ruled by a celtic elite ruling on peasants from the previous populations rather than being replaced by celts. Celticness is just a rather small time of french history, from -600 to -50… when it had been romanized.

[@jean-Pierre-bt8xw]

@@fablb9006 I agree... France is a territory at the cross roads of several other lands, it's one of the most mixed country in Europe and the people accepted this mix, that is the more important difference with others which rejected the mix (like Spain with arabians influence but accepted the Latin one, or Italy which remained roman latin depsite many invasions too). Franks didn't invaded Roman Gaul, they decided to stay and share it with the Gallo-romans... Generation after generation, every "greffes" have worked... Northmen with Frankish for example. Also french language is the weirdest latin language because it's greatly influenced by Frankish (germanic tribe) with a strong guttural R... it began just after Roman invasion, like a sort of litttle rsistance, Gallo-romans were speaking roman the celtic way, with stronger and rude sounds than latin roman. French language is a mix itself, if the structure has a latin base, the sounds are truly the farest from Latin.. . even Romanian language is nearer to Latin than french.

[@Sir77Hill]

​@@jean-Pierre-bt8xwthis is only partially true. About 85% of French vocabulary words come from Latin while, in the meantime, around 75% of Spanish vocabulary words come from Latin, but many of these words have slightly changed in spelling and pronunciation in the Spanish language contrary to French. French and Italian (the direct descendant of Latin language) are closer to each other than to any other major Romance language (about 80% to 90% similarity in vocabulary). Also, The French "R" is a uvular fricative, mostly like the "R"- sound used in Portuguese (meaning that the back of the tongue approximates the uvula but doesn't actually touch it, resulting in a reduced, sometimes barely perceptible "R"- sound) whereas most Germanic languages pronounce it as a uvular approximant. Though, The alveolar trill (rolled "R") was still the common sound of "R" in pretty much all of France at the beginning of the 20th century, having been gradually replaced since then, due to Parisian influence, by the uvular fricative pronunciation.

[@lahire4943]

​@@jean-Pierre-bt8xw France is not one of the most mixed countries in Europe, and if it is the crossroads of Europe, then how would you call the countries of central Europe? France has the Pyrenees to the South West, the Atlantic Ocean to the West, the Channel to the North, the Rhine and the Alps to the East and the the Mediterranean Sea to the South East. The French people remained essentially the same it was 2,000 years ago thanks to these natural barriers. In fact FST genetic distances between the different French clusters are very similar to what we observe in Germany or even in Japan.

[@jean-Pierre-bt8xw]

@@Sir77Hill In fact, there exists 2 R prononciation in France. The one of the south (which is slowly dying) and the one from the oil and Paris, a guttural one compared to other latin languages. My grandmother had the R a bit like the italians, cause we are from Limousin (part of occitania), but this R has lost the war to the one from The North-East and Paris.

[@populustremulus228]

From what I have seen in Paris lately, France's dna is mostly a mix of different subsaharan tribes, meaby bantus or congos?

[@PavillonNoirParis]

French women love black people, that's why the French people try to imitate black people as best they can, in the way we dress, listen to rap music, behave like monkeys, to please women. I think we are an Islamo-Congoid people.

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

😂😂😂

[@gerardsoler1713]

Sorry for your World coming to an end... A World of purity of races, of god worshipping, of evergoing Wars and dying of flu. Bye.

[@Klaus_Schwab_Official]

​@@PavillonNoirParis MDR 😂

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

​@@gerardsoler1713Pity a France of mongrel people, made up of Yoruba, Arabic and Vietnamese. How French. Yuck.

[@hugues-v8i]

Thank you for this interesting and informative video. As a Frenchman I was unaware that there were so many genetic variations in the different regions of my country. I think this explains why it is difficult to assign a particular physical type to the French in general. I was born in the North-East of France (close to Germany) and I have noticed that in Germany and England I have often been mistaken for a native. Appearances are deceptive! These genetic considerations are beginning to fade with the waves of mass migrations of the 20th century, first from Southern Europe and Poland. Now from all over Africa and Western Asia. You only have to walk around the big cities to realize that the new ethnic order is radically different from what it was a century ago. And the phenomenon will grow with the waves of political, economic, climatic refugees... And it's a bit the same everywhere in Europe I think. C'est la vie...Vive la différence!😀

[@ZultGabre]

Well yes but we can't help 1 300 000 000 peoples so no we will at a certain point not help them it is sad but the truth

[@xaviergiraudon2247]

Very interesting thanks as a frenchman from the North ; I had to hang on tight through your lovely scottish accent, keep on the good work ! bravo …awe!

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@TroyDowVanZandt]

You can't talk about the genetics of France without thinking of the Netherlands. Dutch is a form of Low Franconian--that is, it's descended from the old Frankish language. Since the early 700s and the death of the last great pagan Frisian king Radbod, what we now call the Netherlands has been experiencing ontfriesing in Dutch and Entfriesung in German: de-Frisianization. It would be interesting to see what extent the Franks changed the genetics of the Netherlands or whether their impact was more cultural. In any event, splitting such fine genetic hairs might be difficult between two closely related Germanic peoples.

[@paoladelijster7060]

Nederland people have not really genetic Common with french. Genetic is far, far… from frank. I know because the family of my father come from batave tribe (s’gravenzande, naadwiik) and frank is from belgium. ( but i don’t really know from nederland origin). My father tell me « I ´m Holland people not frisian !!! »😀What mean? I don’t know

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

The Frisian dialect is the present-day language that's closest to Old English...

[@paoladelijster7060]

@@Blaqjaqshellaq I know in Alsace language. They say « vorta » it’s similar a efenvoort but no more

[@SiL-uj2zl]

Added to this has been massive Huguenot immigration into the Netherlands from the 16thc to the late 18thc from France with the major cities seeing 1 in 3 of its pooulation having French and Belgian Protestant heritage

[@SiLeNtLyFaMoUs80sSynth]

Im from Southern England and are R1b DF27 Z274 of English ancestry on my fathers side 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪. H536 from my mothers side from Southern Ireland

[@bonseraphin1119]

The local diversity in modern ethnic french french is more or least the same among Gaulish. This is nothing to do with "southern euro" or "northern euro" admixture. SouthWestern French are close to SouthWestern Gaulish My Northern French father is close to Northern Gaulish, and not germanic.

[@Səv]

Mainly Celtic followed by bits of Germanic and Roman

[@xenotypos]

There was admixture, and we certainly know that the genetics of France changed at some points in history (for example after the Frankish invasions, especially in the northern part of France).

[@douglasstrother6584]

Bakersfield, California and surrounding areas has a large Basque population. Great Basque restaurants, too.

[@rhino3330]

Our basque people are awesome, regardless of where they go live :D

[@MrJeanBaguette]

Don’t think basQue ppl have invented anything. Ive never understood whats so special in basque nation (appart from the land which is just geography) . Just a nation among others just luckily preserved by geography (ir it would have been wiped away, u aint gonna defend anything with just goat cheese and black berets lol)

[@rhino3330]

​@@MrJeanBaguette Have you ever considered opening a history book before talking to people about historical subjects ? This would have been a lot less rude and you would have looked much smarter if you did. Obviously, you don't know they fought for these lands and that's why the bombardements around WWII were such a tragedy for them, seen by the whole world. But that's fine, you were probably more attentive to classes where the teachers explained how XVIIIth century revolution saved the world with freedom and perfect equality amongst french people.

[@ianblake815]

Much love to our French brethren! 🇫🇷

[@gabrielg.4238]

Southern an central french belong to the same cluster as iberians and northern italians and some swiss, that happened because of proximity, cultural similarities and genetic origin. It's the south-western cluster, other french are in the North-western clusters, closer to germanic peoples in general , brits , nordics , germans , Dutch, Austrians....

[@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn]

I always thought that France was a patchwork of all of Europe. I now know for sure.

[@gabrielg.4238]

@@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn similar to Italy, the north is similar to Iberia and Southern France meanwhile the center and south are more similar to Greece and Albania

[@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn]

@@gabrielg.4238 I think France is more diverse in that way.

[@kalidali3174]

You clearly don't know what you're talking about 😅

[@gabrielg.4238]

@@kalidali3174 I study genetics and anthropology, I have a little clue

[@iainmc9859]

I know that the traditional reason given for Breton 'Celticness' is the Saxon advance westward through, what is now, England, but I think it is no coincidence that Brittany is the furthest peninsular from the Frankish advance through northern Gaul; however I'm still with Groundskeeper Willie's opinion on our Gallic cousins.

[@TreforTreforgan]

Well, we don’t just have genetics though. The paleo-linguistics suggests that there was substantial population offload from South Britain into South West France, as the Breton language resembles Cornish. The name Breton itself shows that these people’s preferred identifier was Briton.

[@iainmc9859]

I've no doubt that some Dumnonians 'fled' to Brittany at the Saxon encroachments as there was always trade across that stretch of water, just as there has always been trade between the Isle of Man, Scotland and Ireland. The Brythonic form of Celtic unites the Breton's and Kernow just as Goidelic Celtic unites the Manx, Scots and Irish, although they are different in some grammar, spelling and syntax. I think my main point is that the Kernow were not moving to territory that did not have an already Brythonic speaking population. I'm sure many also found homes amongst their Cymric cousins as well.

[@thomaslacornette1282]

The britons were Celtic only by culture and at the time they quit britain to Brittany they are also partly Romanized. But genetically they have nothing celtic. The actual Bretons have also 10% of viking genes as it was colonized also by them in some areas. I realized not long ago one of my gran gran father was born in Amiens (Picardy) and had a Normandy origin family name, so i might have more Norman ancestors than what i thought, i was thinking he was from Paris. But look at my photo i have also 25 % italian genetic from Lombardia, in the end i could look meditterranean/Italian when i have 75% french origins from north/West and North east of france. I'm living in Brittany and that's true there is a lot of blond/blue eyes and red hairs peoples, but they not look like english peoples who are a mix of Anglo-Saxons and Danes.

[@iainmc9859]

@@thomaslacornette1282 Nobody doubts that anybody who had trade with Rome reflected some latin culture, this of course went both ways as Rome was greatly influenced by different cultures it came into contact with. Neither does anyone question the role of the Scandinavian genetic diaspora across northern Europe. To state that the Kernow that left Britain for the Breton peninsular were only Celtic by 'culture' is patently incorrect. The language was Brythonic Celtic and even today, after over a thousand years of being incorporated into England, there are specifically 'Celtic' associated genes in many areas of Cornwall. You can still draw a genetic marker line across England from Bristol to Hull were north west of which there are less Anglo-Saxon genetic markers, although they speak English and self-identify as being English, the fact is there are more Celtic British genes in these areas than Germanic even after 1500 years of integration.

[@thomaslacornette1282]

@@iainmc9859 Sorry but that's what the latest studies are saying, celt culture origin from Haltstatt (it is in Switzzerland if i'm right), celt culture have spread mainly by culture and not by mass population movements, so yes Briton have genetically not much in common with Celts from Halldstat. this video was speaking about genetics. Celt is more a culture than an genetic ethnicity i just read like ten articles on the subject last time i google it. You bring the language, man language is part of the culture... So yes they were celtic by culture like i said. You speak of genetics marker in britain islands but celtic origin from central europe and they don't have same genetics... ok? Just go read the articles maybe.

[@BonnieDragonKat]

I just found out I have French DNA. This was nice to watch.

[@clarityforall]

Bonjour madame.

[@DonRoux]

This means nothing dude there is maybe 5 different big pools in France

[@athrunzala6770]

and you keep smiling? you have all my support in this ordeal

[@nl7wk-nl7wk]

Bonjour et bienvenue au club

[@MrJeanBaguette]

Ty for not being dumb. France is a kingdom its like united kingdom it should have never been called a “country” which are britain, normandy, alsace, provence, Aquitaine, basque, etc etc

[@sonnyb7612]

Surprisingly well researched vid.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@tiapina7048]

When I clicked on the video I wasn't expecting the thick Scottish accent 😊

[@kelechialozie3522]

Irish gaelic accent*

[@Kayambo974]

I’m from Reunion island, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of it!

[@ME-eu9sf]

Outside of metropolitan France, we don't care.

[@Kayambo974]

@@ME-eu9sf why the hell do you say that?

[@xenotypos]

@@Kayambo974 Just a troll, he probably isn't french.

[@ME-eu9sf]

@@xenotypos Si, je suis Français. Les colonies d'outre-mer on s'en cogne.

[@xenotypos]

@@ME-eu9sf Ben ton "on" n'inclut que toi en fait. Tu représentes personne.

[@pierre-louisj.1729]

Thanks for enhancing my hometown in Bretagne, Saint-Malo. Cheers, Celtic friend!

[@SunVante]

Coucou de saint malo aussi 👋🏻

[@hooverbaglegs]

Saint Malo and the other founding saints of Brittany, were from Wales. We are your brothers and sisters. Kenavo!

[@Miaou98]

I don't understand people's obsession with their DNA. Is there some crazy secret that comes with knowing your DNA ?

[@Rubbe87]

Yes

[@Miaou98]

@@Rubbe87 liar. 😡

[@philippekogler]

Very interesting but i really have to concentrate to understand your accent (subtitles help!)

[@kapsssel]

Do you have data on eastern europe ancestry?

[@fighter-nj7vl]

The French are a people mostly of Gallic origin with some Germanic influences.

[@jfjoubertquebec]

1:05 Charles the Bald... is also the first to rule on the controversy of the Catholic Mass. Monks had realized that this "Jesus is in the wafer" stuff was not in the Bible.Charles the Bald ruled in favor of Jesus actually being there at mass. He was Charles the Bald because he wore a tonsure... so monk-like at a time when the Franks swayed more power than the Roman Church. This "Jesus in the wafer" issue would come up again and again after that.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Nonsense. It wasn't Charles the Bald who finalized that dogma. Transubstantiation was a given before baldie. Revising history in order to enforce fallacies lends no one credibility.

[@DucDigital]

Some people say French are originally muslim 😂

[@NotLeftarded1]

I'm a French person from Canada being French is complicated. What are we exactly, who knows? We've been mixing it up for 2000 years. Here in Canada there are estimates of 53 to 78 % of us have at least one indigenous ancestor. I still look very European but I have a tan all year round and jet black hair with hazel eyes.

[@NotLeftarded1]

I've never done a genetic test but I'm pretty sure it would come back as Northwestern hunter gatherer, Arabic and indigenous. The farthest back I've been able to trace my personal ancestry is 1585 in Normandy France.

[@Ador828]

Spaniards closests relitives southren half of the French not including modern migration on both sides especially massive in Spain now

[@aag3752]

Thanks for another great vid! There's one thing I'm trying to figure out, namely, which ancient populations do we get our light features from (skin, hair and eyes)? Is it from the Steppe Herders? If so, then why are northern Europeans usually lighter than southern Europeans/Mediterraneans/Levantines, with more instances of blonde hair and blue eyes? Would it be because they have more Steppe ancestry? This is just a theory I heard, but I have no idea if it's true. If you're able to do a vid on that topic, that would be really awesome.

[@backintimealwyn5736]

Apparenty indo european yamnaia was'nt BHBE. Neither were anatolians , and they keep on saying HG were of "darker skin" , they also say blue eyes originated in georgia from one single ancester or that it's adaptative to low light (I think the first one does'nt make any sense) . So we don't have an answer. It's probably the biggest genetic taboo, they make it political . My guess is that it comes from the hunters gatherers,and was an ancient adaptation to low light. They found they had blue eyes and try to sell the idea that they were black (makes no sense where has that gene gone?)

[@backintimealwyn5736]

One more thing : BHBE from one of the french region with the less R1b contribution, mostly HG+NF , I was quite baffled to discover we have almost no R1B because very bright blue eyes are the majority, it had to come from somwhere.

[@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn]

Blue eyes are depleted in melanin - the more melanin the eyes contain, the darker their shade will be. Convinced that the P protein had something to do with it, researchers conducted a large-scale study in the hope of isolating what makes the difference between brown eyes and blue eyes. What was their surprise when they pinpointed a single mutation, not in the P protein gene but in a gene attached to it! The mutation, isolated in the HERC2 gene, directly slows down the reading of the P protein gene and reduces its production. The mutation thus discovered acts like a switch. In its absence, protein P is produced normally and the eyes will be brown. In its presence, the P protein is synthesized in less quantity and the eyes will be blue. All individuals with blue eyes therefore carry the same and unique mutation, which appeared in Europe between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago - before, all individuals had brown eyes. The azure gaze would have rested for the first time on our world in the Neolithic era when our ancestors migrated from the Black Sea to Northern Europe. Blue eyes have stood the test of time and spanned millennia. Why did evolution preserve them? Fair skin, typical of Nordic countries, is recognized as an adaptation to low sunlight by promoting the formation of vitamin D. And blue eyes? Researchers have put forward the hypothesis of sexual selection. Why not? Who has never lost themselves in azure gaze?

[@RilesWoolner]

Does anyone know if the Poitou region is genetically more southern or northern?

[@piem724]

As French, I can see that the river Loire is a genetic frontier. But it is a politic frontier too, between France and England Plantagenêt (Aquitaine).

[@lmnll2742]

Plantagenet are originally from Anjou/ Maine. Mostly north of Loire river.

[@ChrisBergernson-oe9zy]

Sur le net ,tu arriveras à trouver une carte réaliste comme ça par des chercheurs français sérieux et non ces abrutis qui sans cesse nous insultent sur nos origines.

[@hopetagulos]

French DNA: Celts... Germans.... Latins.... Greeks.... Cimmerians(?).

[@Thomas-uu9ex]

Much more celtic than Roman

[@stale0610]

@@Thomas-uu9exin the south it’s definitely more Roman

[@hindy1995]

Now we are replaced by African, Algerian,Marroccan Tunisian...

[@lindam.1058]

We are not replaced. They are previous colonies of France. They were not asked when France went there and stayed over a century!

[@reynardus1359]

I think it's mostly North African now.

[@JohnGarofano-s5j]

They are getting a taste of their own medicine,KARMA😂😂😂

[@francoisleyrat8659]

Silly remark

[@reynardus1359]

@@francoisleyrat8659 You're right. Seems I'd omitted a good dose of sub-Saharan.

[@chrisdel2564]

​Et pourtant tellement vrai

[@whitecisgender4911]

@@JohnGarofano-s5j Minorities annoying the majority population in a European country, What could go wrong?

[@rpinter677]

Don't forget that Alsace and Lorraine were part of Frankish Lotharingia and remained primarily Germanic culturally and genetically until WW2.

[@fxdx68]

Alsace/Moselle.

[@Heimrik01]

@@fxdx68 La Moselle c'est un département il me semble, la région est bien la Loraine en français et le nom Loraine vient de l'allemand Lothringen et le mot Lothringen vient du nom de l'un des 3 fils de Charlemagne, qui s'appelait Lothaar, la Lotharingie à l'ogine était la région localisée entre l'Allemagne et la France et elle occupait le Benelux, l'Alasace, la Lorraine, La Suisse, la région Rhône Alpes et le nord de l'Italie. C'était la région la plus riche de l'empire caroligien.

[@fxdx68]

@@Heimrik01 we know all this, like every french school boys.... Moselle is the part of Lorraine which is culturally Germanic.

[@lahire4943]

Alsace and Lorraine were originally Gallic territories that were germanized when they became part of Lotharingia. Strasbourg’s original name is Argentorate, a Gallic name.

[@fxdx68]

@@lahire4943 what you refuse to understand is that alsace is NOT lorraine. Put that in your brain once for all and don't ever put these 2 words together. I am from alsace like my father, my mother was from lorrsine, ok? It is like if I was talking of hawai/california

[@Occitan.VS.Octopus]

FREE OCCITANIA OCCITÀNIA LIURA

[@spartoiss488]

We are the best of Europe 🗣🗣

[@JangianTV]

Fascinating and well done as always! A video idea: sorry if you've already covered it or done something similar. I don't think many Europeans have natural black hair? Would be interesting to know about the history and genetics of this. 🙂

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks, good suggestion.

[@GéraldineTANGHE]

Many european people have black hair in Greece, Spain, Italy, for example.

[@Tezorus]

Fun fact : living in south west France, on the side of my mother we all have a genetic and blood marker linked to central Asia. It could indicate that at some point in the thirteenth century some of our ancestors "met" with mongolians during their invasion of Europe.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

A lot of these claims are speculative. Historically, there was always a cultural divide between eastern and western Gaul - the Romans are recorded courting the west over the east. "Celtic" is just a language family and it doesn't mean all that spoke it were genetically alike, it is more than likely they were ethnically distinct long before the fabled "Frankish" invasion (which was also more likely the spread of a new language). The same goes in Britain. The southern "English" today are virtually indistinguishable from northern and western French and have been so since the Iron Age. The same goes for the Normans - a genetic survey in Normandy failed to find significant evidence of Norwegians, the vast majority of Normans were just northern French and the country they invaded in 1066 was too. When you go back even further and start talking about "the Yamnaya" you really are going out on a limb.

[@mr.archivity]

Yes, Celtic is a language of various tribes of Germanic descent. The same name romans gave to countries/provinces depends on the biggest tribe they fought there.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@mr.archivity Probably not. Current opinion (Brittanica, Wikipedia etc) is that the antecedents of Germanic languages came from Scandinavia and the Baltic after 500BC and the earliest Celtic languages came from Iberia and western France even earlier (although some claim it can be traced to the Balkans). In any event, that puts them a continent apart. As I said, I find all these claims very speculative and the conflation of languages with migrating races even more speculative. Languages move without people moving with them.

[@mr.archivity]

@@kubhlaikhan2015 it is highly debatable as the historian community and glottology community debate on this topic even now. For now the majority is of the “Germanic” language side as they found out that the whole Norse runes were created using the italic caeltic writings as the base.

[@93Djinn]

A majority of Celts kept in slavery until 1794. A small elite of French or Romans.

[@stale0610]

So half gualic and Celtic dna and half italic and Roman dna

[@RaysViolet]

Not half gualic and Celtic. Gallic is the Celtic language that the Gauls spoke. The Gauls were the Celtic tribes in what is now called France. They are a Celtic people originally

[@stale0610]

@ oh I see thank you. But it’s still a good portion of Roman dna if I am not wrong

[@mitsaruna9359]

😅 Hello from France. I àm in Bretagne. My dna is by my father side east France Lorraine and basque. By my mother side Normandie and nordics so. I m a part celte viking and basque. I have a part Inuit. Have à good day🎉

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks for sharing. Hi from Scotland

[@ChrisBergernson-oe9zy]

Me : french (Berry ,midi) ,basque ,spanish .

[@ChrisBergernson-oe9zy]

Probably more

[@jpg-o-km]

Hello. Comment as tu testé ? Perso je peux deviner avec mon arbre généalogique car je suis remonté loin, mais les expériences ADN sont interdites en France, et du coup les sites sont vagues concernant notre pays

[@wildux8221]

I'm french , from Normandie, i got viking dna ..As a lot of english peoples .

[@marchauchler1622]

As the rest of northwestern Europe ;-)

[@incodewetrust8862]

What is this accent called never heard it before but I'm surprised how well qi understand it

[@taybak8446]

What r u saying?!

[@Maki33000]

bonjour, pourquoi tu parles aussi vite ? prends ton temps ! 🐌

[@ommsterlitz1805]

France IS the largest country in Europe after Russia not just one of them

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Russia and Ukraine are larger, France is third

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@celtichistorydecoded Ukraine is not larger since 2012

[@chrisdel2564]

As a Norman I confirm scandinavian dna

[@thierrylofoten4470]

Really ? Sure you'll be disappointed. William the Conqueror was the great-great-great-great grandson of Rollo. When Rollo and his Viking warriors established themselves in Normandy, they were 3000 among an estimed population of 300 000. Conclusion, looking for a Scandinavian DNA in today's population in Normandy is a probability close to that of a 6 in loto.

[@jpg-o-km]

​@@thierrylofoten4470in DNA yes, but in genealogy it's possible.

[@Descroix]

​@@thierrylofoten4470who know how much they were and also the population number in this Time

[@chrisdel2564]

Desapointed really? I tested myself : haplogroup I1

[@Səv]

Mainly Celtic with bits of Germanic, Roman and others thrown in

[@Thomas-uu9ex]

Much more germanic than roman. Francs Saliens, Gaules Celtics same things

[@mr.archivity]

@@Thomas-uu9exRoman dna aka Latin dna spread mainly to southern France but it is really diluted

[@Thomas-uu9ex]

@@mr.archivity connerie concernant l’ADN ! 99,9% ADN commun à toute l’humanité. ET - de 0,1 de l’ADN est très rarement attaché à leur localisation géographique

[@volrod9420]

@@mr.archivityEven in southern France the so called “Roman DNA” warns that much. Remember that it was the Greeks who built the Mediterranean part of France

[@mr.archivity]

@@volrod9420 even if the Greeks had cities as Marseille from 600 BC they didn’t really mingle with the locals. That’s why Hellenic genetics are around the same as the Latin one.

[@juan-gk1pd]

I'm from the Saintonge region, and i'm 45% iberian and 45% west european, with tiny bit of breton and italian

[@Rubbe87]

I dont consider them white.

[@RaysViolet]

French people are white you moron.

[@olivyeahno]

Why?

[@lindam.1058]

I agree, they come from all over Europe and then previous colonies from Northern Africa came to build the country after WWI and WW2.

[@iainmc9859]

I know the traditional reason given for Breton 'Celticness' is the advance of the Saxons westward through what is now England, but I think it is no coincidence that Brittany is the furthest peninsular from Frankish incursions into northern Gaul; however I'm still with Groundskeeper Willy's opinion on our Gallic cousins.

[@hooverbaglegs]

@@iainmc9859 not really - although Gaulish is the ‘parent’ of Brythonic which became Welsh and eventually Breton after people from Britain escaped the Saxon invasion

[@iainmc9859]

@@hooverbaglegs Just to clarify your 'not really'; when the Merovingian Frankish King Clovis conquered the Romano-Gaulish territory of Soissons in 486 AD and then captured the towns of Blois and Nantes in 491 AD where do you think that those Gaulish (Brythonic) speaking people went to ? I've no doubt that many stayed put and just accepted a change in the aristocracy and slowly learnt a new language but I'm also sure many fled further west where there were already Brythonic speakers in Armorica/Brittany, some of which had fled Saxon incursions in Britain. Or are you just saying Gaulish is not Brythonic (P Celtic) ?

[@hooverbaglegs]

@@iainmc9859 yes, just saying that Gaulish is the precursor to Brythonic, but it was mainly ‘p’ Celtic.

[@iainmc9859]

@@hooverbaglegs I think you're equating Brythonic and British (Insular). Brythonic (P Celtic) and Goidelic (Q Celtic) are linguistic terms not geographically in origin. People who spoke P Celtic (Brythonic) may have had regional dialectical differences, like modern day Swiss German and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern German, but it would have been mutually intelligible, given a chance to get the 'ear in'. If you are saying that British P-Celtic came later than Gaulish then that wouldn't hold true as there is plenty of evidence that Celtic tribes moved from Gaul to Britain, the Belgae being the most obvious example, although the Veneti are perhaps a more appropriate one for the connection between Armorica and Dumnonia (Cornwall) without apparent linguistic difficulties. I'm not saying that any of these languages were fossilised or did not have dialectical differentiation over time or geography. Only that in any one time period they could make themselves understood by their peers, perhaps not immediately by a Brythonic Brigantian to an Anatolian Galatian, but with attunement as a 'lingua franca' as needed.

[@hooverbaglegs]

@@iainmc9859 agree with you. P Celtic preceded Brythonic, Gaulish was pre-Celtic and as you say was P(mostly!). There’s an interesting vid on KZbin somewhere of speakers of Welsh, Breton and Manx trying to decipher Gaulish. Interestingly it was the Breton speaker who did the best. The Manx speaker really did not have a clue!

[@tiffanygrever8092]

I have French lineage on both sides of my family or so I'm told, one of the earliest stores of France I remember is the story of sr, lansulot from king Arthur.

[@denezherri9905]

Sir Lancelot is son of Ban of Benoïc, actually lord of Armorica/Brittany (Bretagne) So he is a continental briton (breton) rather than a french

[@xenotypos]

@@denezherri9905 There are several versions but he wasn't even talking about the character itself: the story is from France, Lancelot is a character created by Chrétiens de Troyes. Even his personality and story are very typical of french medieval romance.

[@DerElsasser1]

French DNA = Africa.

[@emmanuelboudot9631]

Russian DNA=vodka

[@spartoiss488]

Of course we have to make people grow up

[@marc-oliviercannenterre6770]

Mankind DNA = Africa dumbass

[@jpg-o-km]

Like everyone: Human come from Africa

[@objetivista686]

​@@jpg-o-km woke tard 😅

[@LesNouvelle-Angleterreur]

Hey its me again, check out the bellows falls petroglyphs which bear a resemblance to celtic stone works and Upton chamber, SNETT chamber, and the Pascoag stone chamber It looks very similar to Irish chambers across Ireland and the Dal Riata.

[@CROM-on1bz]

It is no coincidence that a Celtic people from the southwest of England, the Parisii, have the same name as the people who founded Paris (literally the city of the Parisii).

[@paoladelijster7060]

Stone from Brittany is dated far from celtic people and from england or irish stone is from neolithic people they lived here megalith or cairn are 5000 are 4000 or 5000 year old

[@LesNouvelle-Angleterreur]

@@paoladelijster7060 What?

[@LesNouvelle-Angleterreur]

@@CROM-on1bz Why are you telling me this?

[@CROM-on1bz]

@@paoladelijster7060 It's true that the megalithic culture extended along the entire Atlantic coast as far as present-day Morocco and the centre of present-day France. I live in a very small village in Normandy and we have our "dolmen", a little small, a little lost in the middle of the fields, but we have one.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Also, you must see the Landes area as some sort of frontier: it was a very poor, dangerous marshy regon until Bremontier had pine trees planted there. The Arabs went all the way up to Poitier in 732. Then they were stopped, but it is obvious if you look at the Landes phenotypes, that, retreating arabs left traces behind (whether rape or just soldiers left behind who settled). Then the English settled in the Bordeaux area. Indeed, the SWest is very different from the SEast even though the accents share some of their features.

[@Christophe-pl5xu]

Being of brittany my dna test say i m 97% irish dna.

[@stufromoz8164]

Why did I think this vid would be about good wine and even better cheese ???

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Life is about good wine and good cheese :)

[@PhenecX]

Finally someone putting Andorra on the map 🎉

[@PhenecX]

Thanks also for mentionning us Basque frenchs, too many thinks that Basque country is only in spain. Really nice vid well documented

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

But that Olympic opening mate

[@nre1553]

Were the Gauls fairer of hair and skin than the modern French?

[@gigiatlas2364]

I wasn't gonna watch but then I HEARD the man

[@DeoFrutuoso]

Thank you very cool, My moms fathers side is Cajun French which came from the Vendee region more then likely. Western central France

[@imhassane]

This is only metropolitan France though but great video

[@barbarabof]

I have French dna too

[@occhjucorsu846]

Corsica is italian dna and blood. not French read the “genetic melting pot of Corsica”

[@xenotypos]

It wasn't that different from Occitanian people, in southern France (which were also close to Italians). In general, clear divides rarely existed, it was almost always a gradual shift as you move geographically.

[@stale0610]

The whole south of France is genetically similar to Spain and Italy

[@DonRoux]

There is no since France is a politic structure Wich is magnificent in a way

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Nonsense. Politics is a structure, which is built on sand.

[@Charlie-v4s3q]

My genetic make-up is Est Asia, Iberians, English, Scottish, Irish, and French.

[@ludovic7439]

Today , African DNA...😢

[@vp5881]

Japhet eu 7 fils .7 .

[@vp5881]

Lisez la genèse ,puis la généalogie dans la bible ,ce sont des récits des témoignages véridique même prouvé par la science = archeologie .

[@spartoiss488]

La preuve c'est l'archéologie ? 😂

[@maelstrom57]

On dit qu'Adam et Ève chevauchaient des vélociraptors pendant la journée du Jurassique.

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

Normandy is because of visigoths and franks They were germanicos Not viking huns

[@au9parsec]

If Normandy wasn't because of northmen from Scandinavia, then why is it called Normandy, is it just coincidence?

[@TheMangeGrain]

​@@au9parsecIt's only because king Charles III of the Franks gave a part of Neustrie to Viking jarl Hrólfr (aka. Rollo in latin) during the year 911, following a rather unsuccessfull raid. Rollo was beaten while besieging Paris, beaten again while besieging Chartres, and the king opened negociations... Rollo became count, a nobleman under the king, and was notably tasked to prevent further viking incursions on the Seine river. Later his heirs were "promoted" to dukes in Normandy and became kings in England.

[@au9parsec]

@@TheMangeGrain , I already, know.

[@xenotypos]

@@au9parsec It's difficult to actually estimate the number of scandinavian people that settled (apart from the ruling elite). We know that in some (small) parts in Normandy it was massive as the population became predominantly nordic, but for Normandy as a whole the common point of view is that it's likely the vast majority of the population remained the locals, frankish/gallo-roman.

[@Descroix]

​@@xenotypos i bilieve that normandy has most important danish toponymy among country occupied by the viking in Europe One reason ? Normandy was the only one given to vikings What do you Can think it's s a fact !

[@italodalmasneto1701]

I guess that the French nowadays are: 45% Early European Farmers 20% Yamnaya 10% West African 5% Natufian 5% WHG 5% Iberomarussian 5% Bantu 5% Other

[@jordanchristiancambay8425]

Il n'y a pas d' ADN français Un breton a de l'ADN celte Un corse de l'ADN latin et arabe ou berbère Un alsacien de l'ADN germain Ils sont pourtant tous français. Vous allez nous sortir quoi bientôt ? l'ADN américain ou brésilien ?😂😂

[@jeffkodiac]

t'as rien compris toi . L 'ADN Francais est un mélange , comme la plupart des ADN

[@xenotypos]

T'as pas compris l'objet de la vidéo toi. Utilise ta tête trois seconde, selon ta propre définition l'adn arabe, celte, latin... n'existent pas car ce sont (comme toutes populations si on remonte assez loin) des mélanges à la base, pourtant ils ont des marqueurs génétiques communs qui ont font incontestablement des groupes. L'adn du Français typique pré-vagues d'immigration du 20ème siècle, est un mélange de sang celte, germanique, et latin. Avec une prédominance celte gauloise. C'est globalement resté assez stable pendant un peu plus de mille ans, ce qui en fait incontestablement le prototype génétique du français d'origine. Ca veut pas dire que ça peut pas changer, mais l'identité Française s'est construite avec cette population jusque-là. C'est une constatation objective.

[@Shiliitexx]

Tu aurais regardé la vidéo, tu aurais vu que le nord est plus germain que les alsaciens