Home›Africa›Sacred LanguagesBrowse BySacred LanguagesThis page groups sacred regions by the language of the scripture that names them holy. Wikipedia notes that "according to the Hebrew Bible, Jerusalem was made the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah under the House of David." Browsing by sacred-languages lets a visitor find every region named holy in the same scriptural language.FactsSacred LanguagesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRegions 1Sacred LanguagesFilter Results7 entriesParent RegionAllCentral Africa (2)West Africa (3)Principal TraditionAllChristianity (6)Islam (6)Judaism (2)Kongo Religion (2)Waaqeffanna (3)Principal Tradition OfAllChristianity (6)Islam (6)Judaism (2)Kongo Religion (2)Waaqeffanna (3)Sacred ToAllChristianity (1)Kongo Religion (2)Yorùbá Religion (Ifá) (3)Modern AreaAllAlgeria (2)Benin (2)Burkina Faso (2)Burundi (3)Cabo Verde (2)Comoros (3)Djibouti (3)Egypt (2)Eritrea (3)Ethiopia (3)Gambia (2)Ghana (2)Guinea (2)Guinea-Bissau (2)Ivory Coast (2)Kenya (3)Liberia (2)Libya (2)Madagascar (3)Malawi (3)Mali (2)Mauritania (2)Mauritius (3)Morocco (2)Mozambique (3)Niger (2)Nigeria (3)Rwanda (3)Senegal (2)Seychelles (3)Sierra Leone (2)Somalia (3)South Sudan (3)Sudan (2)Tanzania (3)Togo (2)Tunisia (2)Uganda (3)Zambia (3)Zimbabwe (3)Attested From (Year)All75 BCE (1)125 (1)450 (1)842 (1)1601 (1)1711 (1)Attested To (Year)All750 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory I (1)Category III (1)Category IV (1)ISO 639-3 CodeAllara (1)eng (1)fra (1)gez (1)lat (1)sw (1)yor (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)16,000,000 (1)50,000,000 (1)274,000,000 (1)312,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllLiturgical / Learned Use Only (2)Living (5)ToneAllNot Tonal (3)Tonal (1)Word OrderAllSOV (1)SVO (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 7ArabicSacred Languages4 entriesEnglishSacred Languages1 entryFrenchSacred Languages1 entryGe'ezSacred Languages2 entriesLatinSacred Languages2 entriesSwahiliSacred Languages2 entriesYorubaSacred Languages2 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: RegionsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.