(06-03-2019, 05:56 PM)VViews wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi geoffreycaveney (and a belated welcome to the forum!),
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For the middle ages, there are certainly instances of invented languages: Hildegarde von Bingen's Lingua Ignota is perhaps the most famous example. However, even the Lingua Ignota is somewhat rooted in latin, and certainly the sentences are structured in ways that are inspired by, and often mixed with, proper latin.
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Yes. It's a few years since I've looked at it, but I immediately noticed two things...
- The alphabetic cipher is easy to recognize and memorize because most of the shapes are minor morphs of Latin letters.
- The word groups are very organized, using common Latin endings to represent certain kinds of groups of plants, for example.