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unusual facts about liturgical language



Sarvodaya Sanskrit Ashram

The ashram's roots in Sanskriti culture, Sanskrit (a liturgical language of India), and literature, help it revive Sanskrit and the ideas that Sanskriti is based on.


see also

Latin Europe

Western Christianity, the areas of Europe where Latin was used as the liturgical language of the church during the Middle Ages

Lucumi

Lucumi language, a Yorùbá dialect and the liturgical language of Santería

Metropolitanate of Gothia

The official language of the principality of Theodoro was Greek, but the Gothic language remained in use in private homes at least until the 18th century (Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq in the 16th century reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople, and left a Gothic-Latin glossary with about a hundred Gothic words), but it is unknown for how long the Gothic language survived as liturgical language in the Crimean Gothic church.

Siirt

An illuminated manuscript known as the Syriac Bible of Paris may have originated from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have worshipped in Syriac, a liturgical language related to Arabic still in use by the Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the Nestorians along the Silk Road as far as China.