Portal:Constructed languages/Did you know/Saturday

...that J.R.R. Tolkien originally created his Middle-earth merely as a background for his constructed languages?

...that the earliest known constructed language, Lingua Ignota, was created by Hildegard of Bingen, who also acquired fame as a mystic, visionary, and composer of music?

...that Ill Bethisad is an alternate history project that features dozens of constructed languages?