Introduction

Religion has always played a key role in investigation and development of

languages. Languages which we speak today are derived from religious language
which can also be termed as the root language of that particular language.
Growth of modern linguistics can be traced back in nineteenth century. Many
significant developments were made in the history of language. We can see the
similarities between two languages it is just because they had emerged from the
same root language.
What is Religion.
Religion needs two explanations. First it is seemingly universal in all human
societies which means that every society in the world has some religion. Second
religion can vary greatly from one society to another, they possess certain features
in common that make us able to identify them as religion.
Role of religion in investigation and development of language.
One of the most prominent language in the history is Sanskrit from which many
languages have emerged. Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most
ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit.
Sanskrit gave rise to Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, Punjabi and much later,
Hindi - and some other North Indian Languages. The grammar for Sanskrit was laid
out by Panini in the 4th century BC. Most North Indian languages today are
descended from Sanskrit. When we say descended, we mean that they are
corruptions of Sanskrit, in the same way that Bhojpuri, Khadi Boli, Awadhi,
Mumbaiyya Hindi might be considered corruptions of Hindi. Over the years, these
corruptions developed into full-fledged languages in their own right. However,
most of them retain the same grammatical structure and have many words that
are common, and differ only in pronunciation.
For example, home in Sanskrit is Griha. Home in Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati is Ghar,
and in Punjabi is Grahi.
In this way, most North Indian languages can be traced back to Sanskrit. This is why
it is called the mother of North Indian languages.
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often
divide the Germanic languages into three groups:
1. West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch);
2. North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian,
and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and
the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
One more example can be taken of Arabic language which gave emergence to
Urdu language. As we Pakistani speak Urdu language as our national language we
can see that Urdu language totally resembles with Arabic language. Its written style
is like Arabic. Arabic which is religious language of Arabs who are Muslims.
It was the Romans themselves who referred to their language as lingua Latīna—“the
Latin language” (literally ‘tongue’). This is an important historical clue, as it would
indicate that the language had already been established in Latium prior to the
founding of Rome, or at least before the Romans had become influential in the region.
Latium was a small, west-central region of the peninsula in the southern portion of
modern Lazio, which was occupied by a tribe of people known as the “Latins”. As Latin
can also be said that it is root religious language which has laid its impact on many
languages including English it has contributed in the vocabulary of many languages.
The English vocabulary is largely comprised of Latin cognates (it is estimated that over
60% of English words come from Latin) and the Romance languages, Latin’s daughters,
owe the most of their vocabularies and grammatical structure to this
linguistic alma mater (‘nourishing mother’). The Indo-European family of languages
that developed in the Italian peninsula is referred to as the “Italic” language family.
Latin belongs to this group, as do many of its early neighbours.
Sanskrit can be said the language of Hindu and non-muslims which is also a
religious language.
As per above examples of languages derived from some other languages it can be
stated that these root language belong to any religion hence they can also be said
that they are religious language which embarked their influence on other tribe to
make another language from it. Language and religion are two things which cannot
be detached from each other.