Re: Hobbits spoke Indonesian!
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 28, 2004, 16:51 |
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Joe wrote:
> Rodlox wrote:
>
> > according to recent archeological discoveries, it is now known that
> > Hobbits existed in Indonesia...so, which language do you think they'd
> > have known? :)
> >
> 'Hobbits', you mean?
>
> Well, if the local legends are true, they had their own, 'murmuring'
> language. How likely that is, I don't know.
>
Hmm. If, as is proposed, the isolated island environment led to their
miniaturization, the perhaps their language also got miniaturized :-)))
This is a fascinating and remarkable find, if true. There must have been
some contact, somewhere along the way, with Papuan/Australian peoples (who
reached their modern locations at least 30-40,000 years ago). Maybe these
"Hobbits" were a group that stayed behind during one or another migration,
then became reduced in size and (apparently) skeletally different due to
isolated environment +some bad gene(s) +interbreeding +poor nutrition over
the millennia. In that case, their language would have been Papuanoid or
Australoid.
(ObConlang/culture: just as remarkable as when the Kash encountered the
genetically/structurally different Lang-Lang on Yanatros)
Many areas of Indonesia have legends about strange (often "little") people
who live in the far reaches of the forest.
What accounts for the relatively small size of African Pygmies?
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