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From the tweet’s image:

> written in an extinct language, Old Church Slavonic

It’s absolutely not extinct and is used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in their religious texts almost exclusively. It’s taught to children alongside their Sunday school curriculum and, of course, in seminaries.



Generally languages with only liturgical usage are not considered “living” languages, just as the Latin if the Catholic Church is still considered a “dead” language.




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