Pali

E41509
Middle Indo-Aryan language classical language liturgical language

Pali is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language most notably used in the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism and influential across much of Southeast Asia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Pali canonical 48
Pali language 4
Pāli 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Middle Indo-Aryan language ⓘ
classical language ⓘ
liturgical language ⓘ
ancestorLanguage Old Indo-Aryan ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Prakrit languages ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature grammatical gender ⓘ
inflectional morphology ⓘ
nominal cases ⓘ
verbal conjugation ⓘ
historicalPeriod Middle Indo-Aryan ⓘ
surface form: Middle Indo-Aryan period
influenced Buddhist terminology in Southeast Asian languages ⓘ
ISO639-2Code pli ⓘ
ISO639-3Code pli ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
lexicalInfluenceOn Burmese ⓘ
surface form: Burmese language

Khmer ⓘ
surface form: Khmer language

Lao language ⓘ
Sinhala ⓘ
surface form: Sinhala language

Thai ⓘ
surface form: Thai language
primaryReligiousUse Theravada ⓘ
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
regionOfInfluence Cambodia ⓘ
Laos ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
Sri Lanka ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
religiousTradition Buddhism ⓘ
sacredTextCorpus Tripitaka ⓘ
surface form: Pali Canon

Tripitaka ⓘ
surface form: Tipitaka
scriptureCollection Tripitaka ⓘ
surface form: Abhidhamma Pitaka

Tripitaka ⓘ
surface form: Sutta Pitaka

Tripitaka ⓘ
surface form: Vinaya Pitaka
standardizedIn Sri Lankan monastic tradition ⓘ
subfamily Middle Indo-Aryan ⓘ
surface form: Middle Indo-Aryan languages
usedBy Buddhist scholars ⓘ
Theravada ⓘ
surface form: Theravada Buddhist monastics
usedFor Buddhist liturgy ⓘ
Buddhist scholastic literature ⓘ
commentarial literature ⓘ
monastic chanting ⓘ
usedInScripturesOf Theravada ⓘ
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
writingSystem Brahmi-derived scripts ⓘ
Burmese script ⓘ
Devanagari script ⓘ
Khmer script ⓘ
Lao script ⓘ
Roman script ⓘ
Sinhala script ⓘ
Thai script ⓘ
no single native script ⓘ

Referenced by (53)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Khmer → loanwordsFrom → Pali ⓘ
Rajasthan → hasMajorCity → Pali ⓘ
Sinhala → hasLoanwordsFrom → Pali ⓘ
Gandhari Prakrit → closelyRelatedTo → Pali ⓘ
Indology → studiesLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Pál → hasVariant → Pali ⓘ
Khmer script → alsoUsedFor → Pali ⓘ
Malayalam script → usedForWriting → Pali ⓘ
Indian philosophy → hasLanguageOfExpression → Pali ⓘ
Middle Indo-Aryan → hasPart → Pali ⓘ
Middle Indo-Aryan → notableLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Tripitaka → language → Pali ⓘ
Theravada → scripturalLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Theravada → languageOfScholarship → Pali ⓘ
Middle Way → languageOfOrigin → Pali ⓘ
Sangha → languageOfName → Pali ⓘ
Asalha Puja → languageOfName → Pali ⓘ
Magha Puja → languageOfName → Pali ⓘ
Marwar → majorCity → Pali ⓘ
Lao → influencedBy → Pali ⓘ
Nisyros → hasVillage → Pali ⓘ
Burmese script → writingSystemFor → Pali ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pali language
ancient India → majorLanguage → Pali ⓘ
subject surface form: Ancient India
Eightfold Path → languageOfTerm → Pali ⓘ
Old Indo-Aryan → followedBy → Pali ⓘ
Indosphere → influencedBy → Pali ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pali language
Indo-Aryan cultural sphere → hasImportantClassicalLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Nalanda → languageOfInstruction → Pali ⓘ
Luni River → flowsNear → Pali ⓘ
Paisaci Prakrit → relatedTo → Pali ⓘ
Ayurveda in Sri Lanka → usesLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Indian Buddhism → hasLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Indian Buddhism → hasScripturalLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Yaśodharā → languageOfPrimarySources → Pali ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pāli
Four Arya Truths → languageOfCanonicalForm → Pali ⓘ
Three Marks of Existence → hasLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Three Baskets → language → Pali ⓘ
Nibbana → languageOfTerm → Pali ⓘ
Patimokkha → language → Pali ⓘ
Thai Forest Tradition → languageOfScripture → Pali ⓘ
Jataka tales → primaryLanguage → Pali ⓘ
Tusita Heaven → languageOfTerm → Pali ⓘ
Vinaya Pitaka → language → Pali ⓘ
Abhidhamma Pitaka → language → Pali ⓘ
Asalha Bucha → languageOfName → Pali ⓘ
Rakhine language → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Pali ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pali language
Vesali → languageOfInscriptions → Pali ⓘ
Shan language → historicalInfluenceFrom → Pali ⓘ
Buddha’s discourses → preservedIn → Pali ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pali language
Thai language → hasLoanwordsFrom → Pali ⓘ