----- 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?
:)