words and loanwords from Greek, Hebrew and Irish. Hermeneutic style, a style of Latin in the later Roman and early Medieval periods characterized by the extensive use of unusual and arcane words, especially derived from Greek. Glossolalia Artistic language Philosophical language Literature Traude Bollig / Ingrid Richter, Hildegard von Bingen, Heilwerden mit der Kraft ihrer Symbole, Aurum Verlag, (an esoteric claim of decipherment of the litterae) Jakob Grimm in: Haupt, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum, VI, 321. Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation and Discussion by Sarah L. Higley. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Laurence Moulinier, "Un lexique trilingue du XIIe siècle : la lingua ignota de Hildegarde de Bingen", dans Lexiques bilingues dans les domaines philosophique et scientifique (Moyen Âge-Renaissance), Actes du colloque international organisé par l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Ive Section et l’Institut Supérieur de Philosophie de l’Université Catholique de Louvain, Paris, 12-14 juin 1997, éd. J. Hamesse, D. Jacquart, Turnhout, Brepols, 2001, p. 89-111. Jonathan P. Green, « A new gloss on Hildegard of Bingen's Lingua ignota », Viator, 36, 2005, p. 217-234. Barbara Newman, Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Marie-Louise Portmann and Alois Odermatt (eds.), Wörterbuch der unbekannten Sprache, Basel: Verlag Basler Hildegard-Gesellschaft (1986). Jeffrey Schnapp, "Virgin's words: Hildegard of Bingen's Lingua Ignota and the Development of Imaginary Languages Ancient to Modern", Exemplaria, III, 2, 1991, pp. 267–298. References External links Transliterate text to St. Hildegard's litteræ ignotæ alphabet. Langmaker profile of Lingua Ignota Eclecticify: Lingua Ignota: a partial English glossary of the Lingua Ignota by an amateur translator. Constructed languages Language and mysticism Medieval literature Benedictine literature Languages attested from the 12th century Forms of Latin 12th-century Latin literature Languages of Germany Hildegard of Bingen