Pali
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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.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Pali language | 0 | 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 (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pali language