Sacred language

A liturgical language or sacred language or holy language is any language that is used in the religious service, by people who speak another primary language in their daily lives.

Some of the examples of the sacred languages are given below:
 Arabic - Islam and Tanwirism (pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism) 
 Ge'ez - Ethiopian and Eritrean Tewahedo Orthodox Churches 
 Coptic - Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
 Koine (common language version of Ancient Greek) - widely used in Christianity at various times and places.
Irish - Neo-paganism (especially Celtic polytheism)
Latin - Roman Catholicism

 Dharmic Religions 
Sanskrit and Old Tamil - Hinduism, Jainism
Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Tamil - Buddhism. 
Punjabi, Sanskrit - Sikhism 
 Classical Meitei - Sanamahism (Meitei religion) and Manipuri Vaishnavism

 References 

 Related pages 
Language death

Category:Languages
Category:History of religion