PLI ISO 639-3
Pali
पालि (Pāḷi) Autonym
A language of India
- ISO 639
- pli
- Alternate Names
- Magadhan
- Autonym
- पालि (Pāḷi)
- Population
- No known L1 speakers in India. Ethnic population: No ethnic community. Total users in all countries: none known.
- Location:
- Scattered.
- Language Status
- 9 (Second language only).
- Classification
- Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Unclassified
- Language Use
- Classical and liturgical language of the Theravada Buddhist canon. Positive attitudes.
- Language Development
- Grammar. NT: 1835.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Pali
- Writing
- Devanagari script [Deva]. Myanmar (Burmese) script [Mymr]. Sinhala script [Sinh]. Thai script [Thai].
- Other Comments
- Pali was a revered standard and international language because the oral sayings of Buddha were recorded in it in the first century BCE, but it died out in mainland India as a literary language in the fourteenth century. Buddhist.
Also Spoken in
- Location
- Widespread.
- Language Status
- 9 (Second language only)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. View other languages of Myanmar
Language Name
Pali
User Population
No known L1 speakers in Myanmar. Ethnic population: No ethnic community.
Map
Location: Scattered.
Size and Vitality
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