Board Thread:Lore/@comment-25799916-20150529021723/@comment-26360929-20150530063405

Argali1 wrote: Elvish=Finno-Ugric.

Rohirric=Germanic.

Adunic=Romance??? (my theory)

Khuzdul=Semitic.

Valinorian=Austronesian??? (my theory)

Black speach=basterdized Valinorian. The thing is that you can't compare Elvish or Khuzdul with Rohirric, as the latter (being in fact Anglo-Saxon) is supposed to have been transalted along with Westron into Old English and English respectively. This makes it very difficult to determine the origin of these languages, but if only seen superificially, the resemblance to Romance languages is not all that clear; they are, in fact, rather semitic than romance. I also seem to recall that Valinorian has been likened to Akkadian (Old Babylonian).