Most of them are R
I2 can be slavicized only.
But my opinion is that I2 was Illyrian also. why not?
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I2a1b was the most common haplogroup of northern hunter-gatherers, while not a single one was found in ancient samples of southeastern Europe.
It is pretty clear that it is the native population of the regions that possibly firstly got assimilated into Germanics, and then into Slavics. No chance whatsoever of them being "Illyrian".
That's based on modern diversity and frequencies which can be misleading and inaccurate, we need ancient dna to confirm that K2/P expanded from South East Asia. So far, Ust'-Ishim from Western Siberia and Oase from Romania were both K2a.
Btw, Mal'ta boy belonged to R*, not R1*.
Either way, I2a1 and R1a were mixed in central or eastern Europe in ancient period, and not in the Balkans after VII century.
Slavic invaders which came to the Balkans in VII century were I2a1 & R1a, only uneducated people or trolls can say that Slavic invaders were only R1a and that I2a1 was in the Balkans before Slavic invasion.
The fact is that I1 in Finns is due to very recent bottleneck effect. If there is any y-dna which explains why I am different to rest of Europeans it is N1c1. Remember, you are genetically more similar to people like Mari and Komi than you are to me. This is because Finns lack the Indo-European admixture which is somewhat present in the Volga Finno-Ugrians.
I am more similar to Mari??
Sorry, but my country is 55% haplogroup I2 (proto-European).
55% of citizens of my country, their paternal ancestors are first settlers in Europe :) Along with I1.
So i am not similar to Mari. We have less then 25% of the R in average. So we are not similar to Mari's. (Not genetically, also not lingusitically)
While Finnish language is very close to Turkic. By origin.
Better for you to have indo-european influence, then Turkic!
But you are more proud with your similarity with the Turks.