Lingua ignota

Hildegard of Bingen, 1150.

Hildegard of Bingen's twelfth-century invented language, a list of about a thousand words with an alphabet of its own, the earliest known constructed language.

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Hildegard of Bingen (1150). Lingua ignota.

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  author = {Hildegard of Bingen},
  title = {Lingua ignota},
  year = {1150}
}

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. “Lingua ignota.” 1150.