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Re: a 12th century conlang

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 19, 1999, 17:21
sidonian wrote:

> Has anyone heard of this medieval conlang? I'm a bit of a fan > of Hildegard Von Bingen and I had never heard of her > inventing a language before.
The Lingua Ignota ("unknown language") consists of lists of mostly nouns with a lot of "z"s in them, with glosses in Latin or Old High German. There's an article about it, listing 30 of the words, at http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/ignota.html .
> I thought S.H. Elgin *was* the creator of Laadan?
Indeed.
> Funny that she would > speak of it as if it was merely something that someone else had > created and that she merely happened to know a little about it.
It's called "irony". -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)