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 ***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
+==Linguistic philosophy==
+Like Tolkien, Michaelidh delighted in and drew a lot of inspiration from the grammars of languages, and as a native speaker of Medh Chêl, a Uralic language, she felt novelty in features of Indo-European languages. As a child she studied Latin and Greek, and considered them mystical and beautiful. Her studies started with the Vulgate Bible and the Greek New Testament, but in addition she broadened her studies to older pagan and philosophical texts in those languages, which she accepted on the basis that the languages' inherent divinity seeped into the texts. She also studied Azalic and English, which she praised for its simplicity, and Riphean, more for practical purposes. Her favorite language in childhood was Irish, and she experimented with various constructed languages in her childhood as well, mostly based on Latin and Greek grammar.
+Her first conlangs started as childhood play, but as she studied the Bible her conlanging efforts grew more serious.
 ==Influence==