TIL medieval polymath St Hildegard of Bingen constructed her own language from scratch, with a whole new alphabet and vocabulary, mainly based on Latin and middle german. It's one of the earliest constructed languages ever, and the purpose of it, remains largely unknown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_ignota
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