Are Slavs directly descended from proto-indo-europeans?
No. They came from the proto-balto-slavs who in turn diverged from PIE.
Just like how the Celts and Italics came from Italo-Celtic which came from PIE
>>491939
>>491944
>Italo-Celtic
Stop spewing wikipedia linguistic bullshit, the only things Italic and Celtic have in common are the /*r/ mediopassive endings and the labiovelar stop split.
>>491939
no, the original stratum was paleo-european proto-balto-slavs that with the indo-european migration got mixed with the indo-european superstratum. that formed the population which will through thousands of years form the slavic meta-ethnicity
Nah theyre close but theyre behind Balts.
>>491939
yes is true
>>491939
Yes, R1a eastern indo-europeans.
>>491939
Really close
Filthy inbred Balts are the closest, especially language-wise
>>491939
"PROTOINDOEUROPEAN" IS A LINGUONYM, NOT AN ETHNONYM, NOR A RACIONYM, AS YOU SEEM TO MISTAKENLY BELIEVE, SO EXPLAIN TO WHOM ARE YOU REFERRING BY "PROTOINDOEUROPEANS".
>>494811
Haplogroup R carriers
>>494814
THEN YOUR QUESTION IS IDIOTIC.
They're a weird eclectic mix of baltic, germanic, iranic, finnic and turkic cultures
