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~~Aeno~~ Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world

Fêrrith Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world

**Influenced by her missionary work in Southeast Asia

**Writes groundbreaking works in historical linguistics (equivalent to our timeline's William Jones) and proposes Proto-Indo-Uralic

***Unlike William Jones, Michaelidh is not surprised by Sanskrit's relation to Latin and Greek; she expects it and travels to Southeast Asia partly to verify her belief in a common ancestor for all human languages which was close to Church Latin and Koine Greek; she also discovers ancient Indo-Iranian loanwords in her native Medh Chêl

**~~Latinizes her name, originally of [[Medh Chêl]] origin, to Aenō, Aenōnis~~

***She doesn't expect Old Chinese

==Linguistic philosophy==

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Her first conlangs started as childhood play, but as she studied the Bible her conlanging efforts grew more serious. Her studies of IE morphology had a notable Christian bent to them -- for instance, she connected the early PIE animate and inanimate genders to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and the grammaticalization of the collective to the Son.

~~==Influence==~~

Her travels in Asia were a defining moment when she discovered two important classical languages: Sanskrit and Old Chinese.

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~~Michaelidh is known all over Irta for bridging the worlds~~ of ~~religion~~ and ~~linguistics. Catholics view Rõktiap as perhaps~~ the ~~only accurate analogy for~~ the ~~Trinity, which is no doubt responsible for the popularity~~ of ~~Michaelidh's work~~. Remonitionists, on the other hand, think of Michaelidh's work as a treasure trove of mystical and occult symbolism as well as paradoxes; major Remonitionist author and critic John Wellwise cited Michaelidh's ~~conlanging as a challenge to~~ her ~~belief in "the original language~~ of ~~humanity" by considering the possibility~~ that ~~societies could make up and pass on new languages that, like~~ Rõktiap, were unrelated to the real original language. This controversy persists to this day in the way Irtan linguists look at pidgins and creoles; historically Remonitionist countries follow the theory that creoles are made ex nihilo and should be grouped into separate language families whereas Catholic countries follow the theory that creoles are descendants of their lexifiers, and the latter is known today in Irta as "the Latzial school of linguistics".

Sanskrit appealed to her because of its IE origin and Old Chinese because of its telegraphic syntax suggesting the state of humanity before the Fall of Adam. It's after her discovery of Old Chinese that she started sketching Rõktiap.

Today, a majority of Irtan Remonitionists reject religious faith but accept the prevailing linguistic theories that arose from Michaelidh's work, which is the main way Remonitionists assert their religious identity.

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-Aeno Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world
+Fêrrith Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world
 **Influenced by her missionary work in Southeast Asia
 **Writes groundbreaking works in historical linguistics (equivalent to our timeline's William Jones) and proposes Proto-Indo-Uralic
 ***Unlike William Jones, Michaelidh is not surprised by Sanskrit's relation to Latin and Greek; she expects it and travels to Southeast Asia partly to verify her belief in a common ancestor for all human languages which was close to Church Latin and Koine Greek; she also discovers ancient Indo-Iranian loanwords in her native Medh Chêl
-**Latinizes her name, originally of [[Medh Chêl]] origin, to Aenō, Aenōnis
+***She doesn't expect Old Chinese
 ==Linguistic philosophy==
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 Her first conlangs started as childhood play, but as she studied the Bible her conlanging efforts grew more serious. Her studies of IE morphology had a notable Christian bent to them -- for instance, she connected the early PIE animate and inanimate genders to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and the grammaticalization of the collective to the Son.
-==Influence==
+Her travels in Asia were a defining moment when she discovered two important classical languages: Sanskrit and Old Chinese.
+...
-Michaelidh is known all over Irta for bridging the worlds of religion and linguistics. Catholics view Rõktiap as perhaps the only accurate analogy for the Trinity, which is no doubt responsible for the popularity of Michaelidh's work. Remonitionists, on the other hand, think of Michaelidh's work as a treasure trove of mystical and occult symbolism as well as paradoxes; major Remonitionist author and critic John Wellwise cited Michaelidh's conlanging as a challenge to her belief in "the original language of humanity" by considering the possibility that societies could make up and pass on new languages that, like Rõktiap, were unrelated to the real original language. This controversy persists to this day in the way Irtan linguists look at pidgins and creoles; historically Remonitionist countries follow the theory that creoles are made ex nihilo and should be grouped into separate language families whereas Catholic countries follow the theory that creoles are descendants of their lexifiers, and the latter is known today in Irta as "the Latzial school of linguistics".
+Sanskrit appealed to her because of its IE origin and Old Chinese because of its telegraphic syntax suggesting the state of humanity before the Fall of Adam. It's after her discovery of Old Chinese that she started sketching Rõktiap.
-Today, a majority of Irtan Remonitionists reject religious faith but accept the prevailing linguistic theories that arose from Michaelidh's work, which is the main way Remonitionists assert their religious identity.