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)