Just feels kinda Roman privilege to assume the almighty wants to hear Latin.
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An omnipotent and omniscient being probably doesn't give a shit about which language you use...or, being omnipotent, you actually can't address it in any other way than it wants you to.
Hot take. I like it. Very Lovecraftian. Impudent to even imply.
God literally created all languages, so surely he knows them all.
*She, and all except for Esperanto
Godless ass Esperanto....
Or ithkuil
My headcanon is that Latin is used both because it's traditional and because it's fairly grammatically precise. You can call a spell in any language, but a grammatically precise one helps focus on the specific outcome you want.