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Re: Hobbits spoke Indonesian!

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, October 29, 2004, 14:28
Quoting Rodlox <Rodlox@...>:

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> > To: <CONLANG@...> > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: Hobbits spoke Indonesian! > > > > > Well, if the local legends are true, they had their own, 'murmuring' > > > > language. How likely that is, I don't know. > > > > This is a fascinating and remarkable find, if true. There must have been > > > some contact, somewhere along the way, with Papuan/Australian peoples > > > > the millennia. In that case, their language would have been Papuanoid > or > > > Australoid. > > > > They're supposedly erectids, so they presumably had spent the better part > of > > forever in Indonesia when the ancestors of the Papuans and Australians > came > > there. > > hm...so, the Austronesian languages could have borrowed from them? > > :)
There does not seem to be any reason to totally exclude that possibility. Andreas

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