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sacred language
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language that is cultivated for religious reasons
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 2,729 inbound references to sacred language, and connects out to Vedas, Church Slavonic and Korean Buddhism.
It is catalogued under topics including Holiness, Religious language and Ritual languages.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
The oldest surviving manuscript in the sacred Sanskrit language: Devi Māhātmya, on palm-leaf, in the Nepalese Bhujimol script 11th century.
A sacred language, liturgical language, lingua sacra, or holy language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like church service) by people who speak another, primary language in their daily lives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sacred language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.