A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
The oldest recension of the Buddhist Canon; also, the language of that recension.
language of Buddhist scriptures
the language of the Theravada version of the scriptures.
A Prakrit vernacular which became the sacred language of Buddhism.
an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
An Indo-Aryan language used to write sacred Buddhist texts
The Indian language of the earliestsutras. Pali is similar to Sanskrit but grammatically simpler.
The Indian language of Buddhist texts.
The name of the most ancient recension of the Buddhist scriptures now extant; and -- by extension -- of the language in which it was composed.
Indic language used in canonical books of Buddhists
The canon of texts preserved by the Theravada school and, by extension, the language in which those texts are composed.
the language of the original Buddhist texts
a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the PÄli Canon or in PÄli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE. PÄli has been written in a variety of scripts, from Brahm, Devanagari and other Indic scripts through to a romanised (western) form devised by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Pali Text Society.