Pāli is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the Liturgical language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pāli Canon or in Pāli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE in the Sinhalese script. Pāli has been written in a variety of scripts, from Brahmi, Devanāgarī and other Indic scripts through to a romanised (western) form devised by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Pali Text Society.

Language origins and development

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The word Pāli itself signifies "line" or "(canonical) text", and this name for the language seems to have its origins in commentarial traditions, wherein the "Pāli" (in the sense of the line of original text quoted) was distinguished from the commentary or the vernacular following after it on the Manuscript page. As such, the name of the language has caused some debate among scholars of all ages; the spelling of the name also varies, being found with both long "ā" (and short "a" (retroflex (^*)" target="_blank" >or non-retroflex ([l) "l" sound. To this day, there is no single, standard spelling of the term; all four spellings can be found in textbooks.

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