Language of culture

A language of culture is a language having a statute privileged in a country whereas it is not the official language.

It is an inevitably fuzzy expression because she asks to define beforehand the concept of Culture.

A language is known as language of culture in a country if:

It is the language of old the colonizing power of this country, and this language kept a certain prestige (like the French with the Kampuchea);
It is the liturgical Langue of a majority of the population (like the Arab in Indonesia or Iran);
It is the language of culture of the adjoining countries (like French in Egypt);
It is a language very studied in this country, for one of the reasons above, or by a political will (as the Russian in the Pays of the East).

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