Hildegard of Bingen's Most Cryptic Creation: Her Unknown Language and Unknown Letters - Medievalists.net
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Hildegard of Bingen, born in 1098 in Germany, is renowned for her music and religious writings but also invented a unique language known as her Unknown Language. Sent to a monastery at fourteen, she later led it and experienced profound visions. At age forty-two, a voice urged her to document these visions, leading to her influential work 'Scivias', supported by Pope Eugene III. From 1150-1158, she created a word list of 1,011 nouns in her Unknown Language, influenced by German and Latin, reflecting her extensive intellectual contributions to the Middle Ages.
Hildegard of Bingen invented her own language and script, known as her Unknown Language and Unknown Letters, which is a word list of 1,011 nouns.
Born in 1098, Hildegard was sent to a monastery at age fourteen and later became abbess, where she experienced visions that led to her writings.
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