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sacred language
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language that is cultivated for religious reasons
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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.