Re: a 12th century conlang

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Irina Rempt wrote:
> > I don't know about
> > Hildegard; probably it was another of her undertakings to know
> > everything about the world.
>
> Given that she called it Lingua Ignota (Unknown Language), she probably
> didn't intend to change the world, or make an IAL, so who knows?  Maybe
> she was just like most of us, just did it as a personal art.
I don't know, Nik, that it was Hildegard who gave it this designation.  I
think it was her redactors who  named it "the unknown language."
There is also another text, incidentally, called _Litteras ignota_, the
unknown letters.  She had a writing system, it seems.

Sally