Re: Hildegard von Bingen

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> Sally Caves wrote:
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> > I don't believe that Hildegard of Bingen occupied herself in "conlanging."
> > This is probably a misnomer.  Hildegard was involved instead with
> > glossalalia, or speaking in tongues--something a little different from
> > the deliberate invention of languages.
>
> No, there really is a document with about 900 words in
> "Lingua Ignota", which has lots of "z"s, with glosses in Latin
> and Middle High German.  See the _Catholic Encyc._ article
> at http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/07351a.htm .
Now that's what I wanted to hear!  Sometimes it takes a public denial to
get the really arcane information... although I really didn't think
she had an invented language.  This is attributed to Hildegard?

Sally
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