What are Northern Italians exactly?

[Peyrol]

I think it sounds more like Romanian than Portuguese if I had to choose, but to me it sounds like other northern Italian languages. Is the Slavic influence really that noticeable in Friuli? I couldn't really tell.

I don't know about the language, but some estimated 30-35% of forlans to be of ancient slavonic ancestors. The area around Aquileia become unpopulated after the fall of the Empire, so the Archbishop of Aquileia called the slavonic (old slavs) to settle some areas ot eh region.

Friulians make good music, indeed:










this is one of my favourite folk song ever, from Spilimberg (Friuli).

[caviezel]

the romansh are also northern italians, that means Hans. R. Giger, creator of the xenomorph of the Alien franchise, is one of us. I suspect he's romansh or partly so.

[Peyrol]

the romansh are also northern italians, that means Hans. R. Giger, creator of the xenomorph of the Alien franchise, is one of us. I suspect he's romansh or partly so.

Even american actor David Boreanaz is a forlan.


Boreanaz is a typical surname if i remember well.

[Sikeliot]

Even american actor David Boreanaz is a forlan.


Boreanaz is a typical surname if i remember well.

I thought it was a Polish surname for as long as I can remember

[Smeagol]

You basically are a mixture of Neolithic West Asian + Gaulish/Celtic + Germanic and Italic.

Very little Germanic I think. Anyway, I consider them to be Central Europeans.

[Sikeliot]

Very little Germanic I think. Anyway, I consider them to be Central Europeans.

Minor, but it's there. They also have Celtic/Gaulish influence.

[Furnace]

They are human DNA mixed with animal DNA

[Peyrol]

I thought it was a Polish surname for as long as I can remember

Yeah it can sound foreigner because a lot of the forlan surnames are strange (Adamic, Albiech, Krancic, Forlan, Furlan, Boreanaz, Murùszach, Velicaz, Tomadic, Pallaver, Tomaduz, etc).

But it's forlan.

[Ianus]

Mainly Gallo romance culturally

[MelinusMargos]

Western Lombard



Eastern Lombard