Pali

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Pali
𑀧𑀸𑀮𑀺 𐨤𐨫𐨁 បាលី ပါဠိ ᨷᩤᩊᩦ บาลี පාලි Pāḷi
Burmese Kammavaca manuscript written in Pali using the Burmese script
Pronunciation	[paːli]
Native to	Indian subcontinent
Era	3rd century BCE – present[1] Liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Māgadhan Pali
Writing system	Brāhmī, Devanāgarī, Kharoṣṭhī, Khmer, Mon-Burmese, Thai, Tai Tham, Sinhala and transliteration to the Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1	pi
ISO 639-2	pli
ISO 639-3	pli
Linguist List	pli
Glottolog	pali1273

Pāli (/ˈpɑːli/) is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka as well as the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.^[2]. Pali is one of the oldest known languages ​​of India which was written in the oldest known script of India , Brahmi script . Its proof is found in the inscriptions and pillars of Emperor Ashoka . In the Buddha era, Pali language was the language of the common people of India. Tathagata Buddha gave his sermons in Pali only. The language of the Dhamma book Tripitaka is also Pali. Pali language is called the 'first Prakrit'.

Some historians consider Pali to be a corrupt form of Sanskrit because the Pali language does not have the letters ऋ, क्ष, त्र, ज्ञान, आ, अ. From the ऋ in the Rigveda, the oldest text of Sanskrit , it can be easily understood that the Pali language is a corrupt form of Sanskrit. There are 13 vowels in Sanskrit, 10 vowels in Pali, 10 vowels in Prakrit, 8 in Apabhramsha and 11 vowels in Hindi. The first grammarian of the Pali language was Katyayana . He has described a total of 41 sounds in the Pali language.