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12th May '13 8:42:56 AM Andygal

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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 AntiVillain 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. Being the MagnificentBastard 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 BrandonSanderson's works, ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', with the "High Speech" which the readers will recognize as the rather ridiculous sounding [[JiveTurkey thieves' cant]] from the ''{{Mistborn}}'' trilogy.
* In Anne [=McCaffrey's=] ''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 [[spoiler:Aari and Grimalken]], and their priests had miraculously picked up the language in a single visit.

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* In ''Literature/{{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 AntiVillain 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. Being the MagnificentBastard 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 Creator/BrandonSanderson's works, ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', with the "High Speech" which the readers will recognize as the rather ridiculous sounding [[JiveTurkey thieves' cant]] from the ''{{Mistborn}}'' trilogy.
* In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''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 [[spoiler:Aari and Grimalken]], and their priests had miraculously picked up the language in a single visit.

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11th Feb '13 7:30:58 PM karstovich2

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24th Jan '13 8:17:44 AM JeffWeskamp

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** Original Buddhism uses Pali/Maghadi, which is referred to in linguistics as a Prakrit ("common speech", compared to Sanskrit, which literally meant "refined speech" and approximates rather closely to the fictional use of [[ClassicalTongue "high speech"]]). Pali in turn may be ancestral to Sinhala, the most common native tongue in Sri Lanka. [[hottip:*:Nobody seems to know for sure the name used by native speakers for Sanskrit and its relatives and descendants, although at one point it may have simply been known as ''vak'', which literally just means "speech" and is probably cognate with "voice" and "vocal". This is surprisingly common in modern languages; for example, in Spain, the Asturian and Aragonese languages, both close relatives of Spanish and Portuguese, are called respectively ''bable'' and ''fabla'', which both more or less mean "how we talk around here".]]
** Similarly, although Zoroastrian is very much a minority faith in its traditional Iranian homelands, Zoroastrians still preserve Avestan, a language closely related to but distinctly separate from Old Persian (and, slightly further afield, Sanskrit) in a liturgical function, although most speak other languages (particularly the Parsis, an Iranian ethnic minority and Zoroastrian remnant most closely associated with India, and speaking local languages or English rather than their ancestral Iranian languages).

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* The original Buddhist scriptures (sutras) were written in Pali/Maghadi, which is referred to in linguistics as a Prakrit ("common speech", compared to Sanskrit, which literally meant "refined speech" and approximates rather closely to the fictional use of [[ClassicalTongue "high speech"]]). Pali in turn may be ancestral to Sinhala, the most common native tongue in Sri Lanka. [[hottip:*:Nobody seems to know for sure the name used by native speakers for Sanskrit and its relatives and descendants, although at one point it may have simply been known as ''vak'', which literally just means "speech" and is probably cognate with "voice" and "vocal". This is surprisingly common in modern languages; for example, in Spain, the Asturian and Aragonese languages, both close relatives of Spanish and Portuguese, are called respectively ''bable'' and ''fabla'', which both more or less mean "how we talk around here".]]
* Similarly, although Zoroastrian is very much a minority faith in its traditional Iranian homelands, Zoroastrians still preserve Avestan, a language closely related to but distinctly separate from Old Persian (and, slightly further afield, Sanskrit) in a liturgical function, although most speak other languages (particularly the Parsis, an Iranian ethnic minority and Zoroastrian remnant most closely associated with India, and speaking local languages or English rather than their ancestral Iranian languages).

12th Dec '12 3:08:32 PM drwhom

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