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Fêrrith Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world | |||
**Influenced by her missionary work in Southeast Asia | **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 | **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 | ***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 | ||
***She doesn't expect Old Chinese | ***She doesn't expect Old Chinese | ||
==Linguistic philosophy== | ==Linguistic philosophy== |
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