What Christian language do you know?

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@Spyridon inspired me to make this.

I know Koine Greek fairly well, and can read the New Testament in the original language fairly smoothly.

What about the rest of CAF? Anyone know Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Church Slavonic, etc.?
 
Passably fluent in Latin.
American English (debatable in its sacred nature)
 
Hey, English is one of the most spoken language by Catholics in the world today; also (even though it’s a Protestant Bible) the KJV is in English, and is considered one of the greatest works in English. 😛
 
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I had two years of year 1 Latin. I know enough to get irritated by college bumper stickers that say Alumni.

[It should be alumnus. Alumni is plural]
 
Of all the sacred languages, I know Latin the best, but I still don’t know it well enough!
 
If you own an old king james version, you tecnically know 2 languages
 
More like two slightly different dialects of modern English.
 
I am fluent in Aramaic.

But before I go further, I must confess that I have told a blatant lie. It would be really cool, though. Aramaic is nearly a dead language. If I am not mistaken, it is still spoken in one small town in Syria, but I would have to look it up. It is dying out, though, because the the young people have no interest to learn it from their parents.
 
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Its still around and its in a few towns in both syria and some places in isreal
 
The Maronites still use it in their liturgies, don’t they?
 
You had me there for a second. Anyone who is fluent in Aramaic deserves a medal.
 
Using a language in a liturgy would not equate to knowing the language, though.
 
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