Liturgical

Languages
 Holy Language
• It is usually used in religious ritual
or other reasons.
• Sacred or holy language can also
be referred to as liturgical
language because it is use in
reciting texts in religious scriptures.
 How did language begin?

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 Tower of Babel

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 Divine Language
• It is a theory states that language is
gift from gods, and almost every
religions, pre- historic religions or
monotheism religions also adopted
the idea.
 Different kinds of
Liturgical Languages

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 Buddhism

Sanskrit- is considered to be
sacred and it is also liturgical
language to many religion such
as: Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism

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 Pali

Pali- Theravada is a branch of

Buddhism which uses Pali as its
Liturgical language.

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 Chinese Text
In some Japanese rituals, Chinese
texts are read out or recited with
the Japanese pronunciations of
their constituent characters,
resulting in something unintelligible
in both languages.

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 Hinduism
Hinduism has two liturgical
languages Sanskrit and Tamil. In
Hindu Literature, Vac is the
goddess of speech and later she is
combined with Sarsvati who is
goddess of knowledge, art, music
and learning.

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 Christianity

Church Latin- also known as

Ecclesiastical Latin is used in
liturgical rites in catholic church.

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 Christianity

Syriac- a Semitic language used in

eastern church of Christianity and it
is used as a liturgical language

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 Christianity

Coptic language- used by both

Coptic orthodox and Coptic catholic
church.

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 Christianity

Classical Armenian
language- Armenian apostolic
and catholic church.

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 Judaism

According to Jews classical

Hebrew is a holy language,
referred to by some Jews as
Leshon Ha- Kodesh
( ‫)לשוןהקודש‬," The Holy
Language".

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 Islam
• According to Islam God
taught ‘’all names’’ and He
taught Adam how to ask for
forgiveness, in another
verse similar to the story of
the Tower of Babel that
languages are from God.
• And Arabs consider their
language to be perfect and
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 Aztec Mythology
After the big flood Coxcox and
Xochiquetzal were only
survivors they got many
children and they couldn’t
speak but after a dove came
each child learnt a different
language that they couldn’t
understand one another.
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 Language of the Bird
• It is also called “Green
Language” in mythology. It
is a magical perfect
language in renaissance
age and in alchemy.
• It is considered to be a key
to a perfect knowledge.
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 Enochian Language

Enochian is an angelic
language claimed by John
Dee and Edward Kelly.

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 Evaluation
Interpret the following liturgical languages:
1. 金継ぎ / 金繕い kintsuki/kintsukuroi- "Kintsukuroi" is
the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver joining the
pieces and understanding that the piece is more
beautiful for having been broken.
2. “Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear”
(Surah Baqarah Verse 286)
3. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should
not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16)

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