It's strange how Goths didn't survive as a culture the way Romans or Franks did, there were a lot of them, surely many of us are their descendents, but almost no current population primarily identifies as their descendents
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not a historical geneticist, but at the time of the barbarian invasions, the Goths would presumably been a minority in southern Gaul/Spain, overlaid as a kind of military aristocracy over the Roman-identifying, Latin-speaking Mediterranean populations.
so I'm sure there's some Gothic admixture, but the language and identity itself was stamped out by Justinian's wars and the Arab invasions. different story with other barbarian groups like the Franks.
