ayearinlanguage: A Year in Language, Day 33: Pali Pali is the religious language of Theravada Buddhi
ayearinlanguage: A Year in Language, Day 33: Pali Pali is the religious language of Theravada Buddhism spoken in India around the 5th to 1st centuries BCE. Some consider Pali to be a descendant of Sanskrit, the holy language of Hinduism, but it is probably actually a sister language. Like Sanskrit Pali has the three classical genders (male, female, neuter) and 8 cases. Students of Classical Latin will be familiar with 7 of these cases, with the Instrumental case, used for objects used as tools or means, being the 8th. In a pattern people who have read my last two entries for Indo-Aryan languages Pali has a four way distinction in its stop consonants; voiced vs voiceless and aspirated vs unaspirated. -- source link
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