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===Language===
Many other factors caused the East and West to drift further apart. The dominant language of the West was Latin, whilst that of the East was Greek. Soon after the fall of the Western Empire, the number of individuals who spoke both Latin and Greek began to dwindle, and communication between East and West grew much more difficult. With linguistic unity gone, cultural unity began to crumble as well. The two halves of the Church were naturally divided along similar lines; they developed different [[rite]]s and had different approaches to religious doctrines. Although the Great Schism was still centuries away, its outlines were already perceptible.<ref>http://www.orthodox.org.ph/content/view/211/50/</ref> An example is the defective translation of the Canones of the [[Seventh Ecumenical Council]] from Greek to Latin. It caused Charlemage to task his frankish theologians with the wording of a refutation ("Libri Carolini").
===Papal Supremacy and Pentarchy===