Pali

Pali
Pali
पालि Pāli
Pronunciation	[paːli]
Native to	Indian subcontinent
Era	5th–1st century BCE; now only used as a liturgical language
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sanskrit Prakrit Pali; ; ; ; ;
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 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 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

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

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[1] Nagrajji (2003) "Pali language and the Buddhist Canonical Literature". Agama and Tripitaka, vol. 2: Language and Literature.

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