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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. | 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. | 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== | ==Influence== | ||