The languages of the Old Ones were a collection of more than forty different languages and dialects of the pre-Númenórean indigenous tribes of Southernesse's great east continent. Not all of these tribal dialects were akin to each other, some seemed to be closer to languages from the utter south, the inner seas, the Yôpi-Peninsula or the Southeastern regions, while others were presumed to be distantly related to the Drûghic languages. Notable dialects were that of the Ulmic Coast, that of the Guardians, that of the Whalemen, that of the Fisherfolk of Seabright, that of the Strandmen, that of the Venturers, and that of the Sun-Children. Those languages from the Earthdance, kem-annikinatha, Pearl Coast, and the Sunbitten Lands were still mostly unresearched and not spoken by outsiders.
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Inspired by: Middle-Earth Down Under: An Antipodean Campaign by Norman Talbot (Department of English, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia) ©1994 Norman Talbot; first published in Other Hands 4.n
"Old One" is mostly based on various australian aborigine languages, primitive Quendian and Drughu, although in a debased form.