Re: Hobbits spoke Indonesian!

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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