Koma, the Gemara in Sanhedrin says that Hashem offered the torah to the Jews in Hebrew and Aramaic. They chose Hebrew. the Artscroll (or is it Metsudah?) footnote by “veromamtanu mikol haleshonos” is that Hashem elevated Hebrew when he chose the Jews. Be that as it may, the seforim hakedoshim say that there is a special merit to Lashon Hakodesh, and the gemara paskens that Sifrei kodesh can only be written in lashon hakodesh or Greek. The Ramban can’t be contradicting all those gemaras. He still calls it lashon hakodesh. Furthermore, the medrash says the world was created in lashon hakodesh. It still is the holy tongue.
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