Pali

Pali
  • 𑀧𑀸𑀮𑀺
  • 𐨤𐨫𐨁
  • បាលី
  • ပါဠိ
  • ᨷᩤᩊᩦ
  • บาลี
  • පාලි
  • Pāḷi
Burmese Kammavaca manuscript written in Pali using the Burmese script
Pronunciation[paːli]
Native toIndian subcontinent
Era3rd century BCE – present[1]
Liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
Brāhmī, Devanāgarī, Kharoṣṭhī, Khmer, Mon-Burmese, Thai, Tai Tham, Sinhala and transliteration to the Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1pi
ISO 639-2pli
ISO 639-3pli
pli
Glottologpali1273

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]

  1. ^ Nagrajji (2003) "Pali language and the Buddhist Canonical Literature". Agama and Tripitaka, vol. 2: Language and Literature.
  2. ^ Stargardt, Janice. Tracing Thoughts Through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma., Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000, page 25.

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