The fact that humans interbred with them likely means we would just think of them as another kind of slightly different looking people.
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It's possible that their speech abilities were different from modern humans. If that's the case, it would be more than just looking differently.
"We show that genes associated with face and vocal tract anatomy went through particularly extensive methylation changes." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15020-6