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


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