I said the latinizations "have kept" not "did keep" the Maronites from Schism.
As I stated in the subsequent post those latinizations are still meritorious. (not all but they are not by any means "long gone")
A societies religions tend to "kill" the language that they have reserved for Sacred/sacred worship. That's just a fact of history.
From Judaism to Buddhism and Shintoism, languages that start out practically as the vulgar tongue tend to die. It's a human characteristic.
"A societies religions tend to "kill" the language that they have reserved for Sacred/sacred worship. That's just a fact of history."
Didn't happen in Greece, though demotic is somewhat different from the Byzantine Greek of the Divine Liturgy or the Koine of the NT. It is understandable by most Greek speaking people.