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To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdictions where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | To the great shame of the Orthodox Church, the traditional languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical worship (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of these lists. Yet, those languages of the Orthodox Church from Eastern Europe and the Balkans are often the languages of the Orthodox Church in extraterritorial lands outside traditional patriarchal jurisdictions where Orthodox Christians have expatriated instead of exclusively the native languages of those lands. No wonder then that Orthodox Christians comprise such a tiny percentage of the population in those lands to which they have expatriated, and have proceeded to shirk any missionary responsibility there, preferring instead to insularly serve themselves instead of others in spiritual need. | ||
==Historical Linguistic Prominence== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Language | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Geographical Area | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 33%" | Time Period | |||
|- | |||
| style="width: 33%"| Koine Greek || style="width: 33%"| Hellenistic Period<br />Byzantine Empire || style="width: 33%"| 323 BC - 33 BC<br />286 AD - 1453 AD | |||
|- | |||
| Latin || Roman Empire<br />Roman Catholicism || 27 BC - 476 AD into 1700s | |||
|- | |||
| Italian || Western Europe - Renaissance || 1300 - 1700 AD | |||
|- | |||
| Spanish || Spanish Empire || 1500 AD - 1800 AD | |||
|- | |||
| French || French Empire || 1600 AD - 1800 AD | |||
|- | |||
| English || British Empire<br />American Western Globalism || 1800 AD - 1945 AD<br />1945 AD - present | |||
|} | |||
[[wikipedia:List_of_empires|List of Empires]] | Wikipedia | [[wikipedia:List_of_empires|List of Empires]] | Wikipedia | ||
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During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals. | During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals. | ||
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