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Preferred term

pliPali  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Pāli (also Pāi) is a Middle Indo-Aryan language (or Prakrit) of the Indian subcontinent. It is best known as the language of many of the earliest extant Buddhist scriptures, as collected in the Pāi Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.

ISO 639-1 code

  • pi

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • pli

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • pli

ISO 639-3 code

  • pli

Notation

  • pli

In other languages

  • Pali

    French

  • pali
  • Pali

    German

  • pali

    Italian

  • Lingua pāli
  • Portuguese

  • páli
  • pali

    Spanish

  • Pali

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pli

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