The primary language spoken during the mass was Latin.
The primary language of the mass was Latin.
The most spoken language by land mass is Mandarin Chinese, as it is the official language of China, which has the largest land area in the world. Additionally, Mandarin is spoken in other regions with large land masses like Taiwan and parts of Southeast Asia.
The primary language of the mass varies depending on the region and denomination of Christianity. In Roman Catholic masses, Latin was historically used but many have transitioned to the local language. In Orthodox Christian masses, the primary language depends on the country and branch of Orthodoxy. In Protestant churches, the mass is typically conducted in the local language.
Latin was the primary language of the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. This was known as the Latin Mass or Tridentine Mass. After the council, the Mass was translated into local languages to make it more accessible to the faithful.
Latin
The old catholic mass was spoken in Latin.
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Pope John XXIII was the one who set up the Second Vatican Council, improving certain aspects of the Catholic religion, such as changing the language of the Mass from Latin to whatever vernacular language of each particular country, that is, Mass in Germany would be spoken in German, Mass in England and the U.S. would be spoken in English, etc.
Most Orthodox Jews used to speak Yiddish. It was primarily spoken in Europe, but it was also spoken in other countries. Today, it is spoken by some Jews. Many Rabbis and older Jews speak Yiddish. Yiddish is the "Patois" of languages of every eastern European country with any significant Jewish population during the past 600 years. Dormant for a while after the great Jewish migrations of the early 20th Century and the mass exterminations of the 1930s and 40s, it's experiencing a resurgence today.
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Orthodox Christians do not refer to it as mass, but the Divine Liturgy. What language it is performed in depends on the church's ethnicity, though most Orthodox churches in America do it mostly in English. If it is a Greek church, then it is partially in Greek; if Russian, then in Russian; etc. But, like I said, the majority is done in English. In Antiochian Orthodox Churches, the entire liturgy is in English.