Pali
Pali is an new Indo-Aryan language. It used to be spoken in India, and is similar to Sanskrit. Pali is used in religious services by Theravada Buddhists. The Theravada holy texts, called the Pali Canon and also known as the Tripiṭaka, are written in Pali. Pali is usually called a dead language. Bengali originates from the Pali.
| Pali | ||||
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| पालि Pāli | ||||
| Pronunciation | [paːli] | |||
| Native to | Indian subcontinent | |||
| Era | 5th–1st century BCE[1] now only used as a liturgical language | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Brāhmī, Kharosthi, Khmer, Burmese, Thai, Sinhala, other Brahmi-derived scripts such as Devanagari, and transliteration to the Latin alphabet. | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1 | pi | |||
| ISO 639-2 | pli | |||
| ISO 639-3 | pli | |||
| Linguist List | pli | |||
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Pali Media
19th century Burmese Kammavācā (confession for Buddhist monks), written in Pali on gilded palm leaf
References
- ↑ Nagrajji (2003) "Pali language and the Buddhist Canonical Literature". Agama and Tripitaka, vol. 2: Language and Literature.
Other websites
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Pali edition. |
- Pāli-English dictionary
- Pāli at Ethnologue
- Pali Text Society
- Pāli Canon selection Archived 2003-06-01 at the Wayback Machine 2008
