Attachment to the Mother Tongue in the Western Countries: In the Christian religion, which has spread widely across the world, there was a time when all forms of rituals were conducted only in the Latin language. The foundational and living scripture of the religion, the Bible, was in Latin. Priests, who worked as religious leaders, and those who wished to understand the religion or perform its rituals and ceremonies to gain spiritual and material benefits, were required to learn the Latin language. Latin was considered the "language of divine rule," "language of worship," "language of penance," "language of divinity," "language of the gods," and so on. It was believed that no language other than Latin could convey ... Read more