Are Italians from Friuli Slavic influenced?

[Bell Beaker]

The former Venetian Republic used to have a territories in modern day Slovenia and Croatia and those territories (mainly Istria in Slovenia), were lost due to the World Wars, and I've been told that some of these populations moved back to the closest Italian region, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia one, and some Friulians speak Slovene which is a Slavic language.


So is there any Slavic admixture in Friuli and does it shows in their phenotypes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian_dialect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavia_Friulana

[Bell Beaker]

Bilingual signs in Slavia Friulana.

[Lucia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_minority_in_Italy

Those are ethnic Slovenes, not Slavic influenced Italians

[MinervaItalica]

There are cultural relations between German, Slavic and Latin in that region due to its particular position.

[Bell Beaker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_minority_in_Italy

Those are ethnic Slovenes, not Slavic influenced Italians

But maybe the Italians living there or people who speak Italian may have ancestry from Slovenes or from ancient Slavs who knows.

[MinervaItalica]

Probably there are also Italians who married with Slavs there. Seems obvious.

[Percivalle]

Bilingual signs in Slavia Friulana.

Only a minority of Furlans have recent Slavic influence imo. And I think there are two kinds of Slavic influence there. Some belong to more recent migrations (Slovene minority), others to more ancient migrations (Slavia Friulana, dating back to 1200 years ago). Maybe the former have usual a Slavic surname, the latter a Furlan surname. Of course randomly someone can have a Slovene ancestor, like at the border between Spain and France you can find Spanish with a French ancestor and a French with a Spanish ancestor.

Piero Fanna was born in the Slavia Friulana, but the surname doesn't sound Slavic.






This is another player who was born in the Slavia Friulana

[Sebastianus Rex]

Border regions usually present influences from both sides, likewise in Slovenia and Croatia there are also minorities of Italian Istrians.

[GiCa]

Inter mixes are common in bordering regions

In my life i ve never met friulans here in Tuscany thought

They are very small region

Thruth I don't even know much how does it sounds their accent because even on tv there aren't friulans comic actor or personalities

[GiCa]

But maybe the Italians living there or people who speak Italian may have ancestry from Slovenes or from ancient Slavs who knows.

There are but if you look at countries relations they haven t been good at all between is and Slovenia and Croatia; we had actually an Italian Genocide in what was part of Italy befor in north east nearby Slovenia
The Foibe done of course mostly by not common Slovenes but from their political elite

But if you ask Slovenes or Croats about that they would uually deny the genocide like the Turks do with the Armenian genocide
And instead some of them would say that it was the Italians who did too some ethnic mirdered on Slovenia and Croatia

Actually I don't deny that during World War II the Italian soldiers in the Balkans did bad things against the population but I

Really it s complicated