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Sacred Language
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There are some religions (either fictitious or not) that use a liturgical language for their rites and ceremonies. That language must be learned by all of their adepts, and sometimes it is even forbidden to translate the holy books to another language, mainly because it is said to have been created by God (or the gods), or to preserve its sacred euphony (good-sounding-ness). See also Language of Magic and Black Speech. Truth in Television, as The Other Wiki can attest to, along with a non-exhaustive list of real-life examples in their own folder. |
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Empire from the Ashes: This becomes a plot point in the third novel. The church that runs Pardal has (mostly) preserved the language of the Fourth Empire. Calling it the Holy Tongue, knowledge of it is limited to the priesthood. Several native characters have freakouts when the protagonists prove to be fully fluent in that language, which according to their religion should be completely impossible for "demons" to speak. | |
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Destroyermen: The fact that the Lemurians use Latin as their ecclesiastical language becomes a significant plot point, as it simplifies the process of learning eachother’s languages and also proves that other humans have come to the altEarth in the past. They soon discover that the Grik also use a human language, though they use it as the "Scientific Tongue" rather than for religious purposes. English. | |
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Acorna Series: One planet considers Acorna a god because she speaks the native tongue of her people. They had been visited many many years ago by Aari and Grimalken, and their priests had miraculously picked up the language in a single visit. | |
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The Belgariad: The language of the deeply religious Ulgo people. It's the only exception to the Common Tongue spoken by everyone else on the planet. | |
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Dept. Heaven: Asgard has a special classical language that's referred to as the Sacred Tongue. While all characters from Asgard conveniently speak Japanese(/English) for the sake of the players and other characters, someone's fluency in the Sacred Tongue (which is rendered in Greek letters) is incontrovertible evidence that they are from Asgard. This is an early plot point in Riviera: The Promised Land, where Ursula's knowledge of the Sacred Tongue doesn't quite match up with the image Hector wants the main characters to have of her. | |
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Captive of the Orcs: Language is a major source of spiritual power. Dallet develops spiritual powers as he analyzes the holy name, one letter at a time. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The priests of Sigmar learn the Dwarven language due to his history with them rather than holding their sermons in it. | |
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The Three Musketeers: Alluded to when D'Artagnan and his friends summarize the reason for the siege of the Huguenot-held La Rochelle in which they're taking part is that the Huguenots pray in French while most Frenchmen, being Catholic, pray in Latin. | |
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In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler speculates that in the Stone Age, language (as in, speaking) may have been restricted to the priests, just as was the case with writing in some cultures. | |
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Exalted has a Zigzagged example. The Old Realm is the language of the creators of the world (called primordials), but in the distant past, the gods rebelled against said creators. The creators were defeated, and imprisoned in Another Dimension called Hell. Therefore, the Old Realm turned from Sacred Language into Black Speech in the perception of most of the world. It remains Sacred for the cultists who worship the defeated creators, and is the native language of spirits, gods and elementals. Only well-educated (meaning wealthy or high-status) humans know it, making it an example of high speech as well. | |
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In Elantris, the Derethi religion has Fjordell, language of the Empire where the Derethi church is centered, as its official language. At one point, Derethi high priest and Anti-Villain Hrathen debates with himself whether or not it's right to preach the religion to new converts in their native tongue, since Jaddeth (the Derethi god) revealed himself in Fjordell.note This may not sound like a big deal to us, but to the extremely dogmatic Derethi, it's a pretty significant hurdle. Being the Magnificent Bastard that he is, Hrathen comes up with an elegant solution: Preach to people in their native language, then teach them Fjordell once they're converted. This trope is parodied in another of Brandon Sanderson's works, The Alloy of Law, with "High Imperial" which the readers will recognize as the rather ridiculous sounding thieves' cant from the Mistborn trilogy. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Celestial is the native tongue of the heavenly planes, and is used a sacred language by the worshippers of good deities. For evil cultists there are Abyssal and Infernal, the languages of demons and devils, respectively. Druidic is the sacred, secret language of the druids: all druids know Druidic, and if a druid teaches Druidic to a non-druid they lose all their druid powers. |
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Farscape: This is discussed in "Jeremiah Crichton" with a long-lost colony of Sebaciens loyal to the Hynerian throne. Over time, one family was able to take the role of priests simply by being the only members who could read the Hynerian language, elevating the royal family from sovereigns to a god complete with a messianic prophecy of his return. When an actual Hynerian royal stumbled on the place centuries later he read their sacred texts, which they had been so confident nobody else could read that they stated all of this outright in them. Needless to say, he was pissed. | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel "Warchild" reveals that there are a number of Bajoran languages, some of which are used only within the Bajoran religion. Kai Opaka wrote about a prophecy about a child from the village of Bennikar in the Kaladrys Valley helping to heal Bajor after the Cardassian occupation and how the child must be found soon. She wrote that in standard modern Bajoran on a parchment decorated on the sides with what Sisko and the Temple priests assume to be decorative, and which Sisko likened it to Islamic calligraphy. It turns out to be an ancient form of the Bajoran language that very few know about, in which Opaka admitted that she hadn't received a vision about a child but felt the situation on Bajor was dire enough that she wrote the prophecy in the hopes that a child would unite the various factions on the planet. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Quenya appears to have been this for the Númenoreans. Downplayed, since from the perspective of other less powerful nations, especially after Numenor's corruption by Sauron, it was merely a "What rich people spoke" Classical Tongue. The dwarven language, Khuzdul, is a sacred tongue that's also in common use. As it was gifted to them by Aulë, the Physical God who created the dwarves, they treat it as holy and never teach it to outsiders. |
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Star Trek: The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel "Warchild" reveals that there are a number of Bajoran languages, some of which are used only within the Bajoran religion. Kai Opaka wrote about a prophecy about a child from the village of Bennikar in the Kaladrys Valley helping to heal Bajor after the Cardassian occupation and how the child must be found soon. She wrote that in standard modern Bajoran on a parchment decorated on the sides with what Sisko and the Temple priests assume to be decorative, and which Sisko likened it to Islamic calligraphy. It turns out to be an ancient form of the Bajoran language that very few know about, in which Opaka admitted that she hadn't received a vision about a child but felt the situation on Bajor was dire enough that she wrote the prophecy in the hopes that a child would unite the various factions on the planet. |
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Nexus War: Every one of the Elder Power cults has a cultic language that only members of the cult can understand. A few of the Religion of Evil cults were too insane and disorganized to come up with their own language and hijacked a dead language from somewhere else. | |
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Zigzagged with Arabic. A common misconception among (non-Arab) Muslims and non-Muslims alike is that the Arabic language is sacred. It is not — only The Qur'an is sacred. Just because you say something in Arabic won't make a (learned) Muslim agree more with you. Nevertheless, while translating the Qur'an into other languages is permitted in Islam, these translations are considered paraphrases or study aids, and not spiritually valid — the Qur'an is understood to be the direct word of God as dictated to Mohammed, and consequently only the original version, written in Classical Arabic, is the actual and undiluted revelation. This is related to its roots as an oral tradition and Arabic's nature as a phonetic language. In fact, the written form of Arabic was originally formalized in part due to the need to record the sacred verses of the Qur'an permanently and all together. Also, Arabic is very much a living language, with over thirty dialects and 300 million native speakers. The form used to write the Qur'an — Classical Arabic — is dead, however, and has been for more than a thousand years. Various Muslim sects differ on whether required prayers can or should be spoken in local vernacular or only in Arabic. For example, there was a controversy when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey and a champion of secularism, demanded that the call to prayer, adhan, be broadcast in native Turkish, a decision without precedent in the Muslim world at the time (it was restored back to Arabic after his party fell from power). |
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In The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Landsman believes that Yiddish is for speaking to people, and that Hebrew is for talking to God. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has Binary for tech priests. It's literally binary; their various implants include an audio modem so they can transfer information faster than speaking. | |
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Firebird Trilogy: The Sentinels use Ehretan, the language of the world they originally came from, for their religious ceremonies, and one of their holy books is forbidden from being translated out of Ehretan. | |
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Blood has the cultists speaking in "Domus Durbendia", a constructed language similar to Sanskrit and Latin. | |
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Ironclaw: Magniloquentia, the Classical Tongue of the city of Triskellion, is the Church of S'allumer's holy language, and required to cast Sacerdotal magic (but not the White Magic most priests cast). Though most of their scripture is written in modern Calabrese and few priests know how to speak or read the old tongue. | |
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In Babylon 5 Narn religious books must be read in Narn or not at all. This is because they insist that every copy of them must be exactly like the original. The Book of G'Kar which was written by G'Kar over the latter seasons of the series is one such book. Due to Mr. Garibaldi leaving a coffee ring on one of its pages, the ring is faithfully reproduced on every copy of the book. | |
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