Pali, the Glossary
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.[1]
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- Ancient languages
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Aṅgulimāla
Aṅgulimāla (Pali) is an important figure in Buddhism, particularly within the Theravāda tradition.
Abhayagiri Vihāra
Abhayagiri Vihāra was a major monastery site of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism that was situated in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Abhayagiri Vihāra
Abhidhamma Piṭaka
The Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English: Basket of Higher Doctrine) is the third of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism.
See Pali and Abhidhamma Piṭaka
Ablative case
In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced; sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.
Abugida
An abugida (from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ)sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabetis a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark.
See Pali and Abugida
Accusative case
In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.
Ahom script
The Ahom script or Tai Ahom Script is an abugida that is used to write the Ahom language, a dormant Tai language undergoing revival spoken by the Ahom people till the late 18th-century, who established the Ahom kingdom and ruled the eastern part of the Brahmaputra valley between the 13th and the 18th centuries.
ALA-LC romanization
ALA-LC (American Library AssociationLibrary of Congress) is a set of standards for romanization, the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin script.
See Pali and ALA-LC romanization
Allophone
In phonology, an allophone (from the Greek ἄλλος,, 'other' and φωνή,, 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor phonesused to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.
Alveolar consonant
Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.
See Pali and Alveolar consonant
Anagarika Dharmapala
Anagārika Dharmapāla (Pali: Anagārika,; Sinhala: Anagārika, lit., අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and a writer.
See Pali and Anagarika Dharmapala
Anuradhapura Maha Viharaya
The Anuradhapura Maha Viharaya was an important mahavihara or large Buddhist monastery for Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Anuradhapura Maha Viharaya
Anuradhapura period
The Anuradhapura period was a period in the history of Sri Lanka of the Anuradhapura Kingdom from 377 BCE to 1017 CE.
See Pali and Anuradhapura period
Anusvara
Anusvara (अनुस्वार), also known as Bindu (बिंदु), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated or in standards like ISO 15919 and IAST.
Apabhraṃśa
Apabhraṃśa (अपभ्रंश,, Prakrit) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in North India before the rise of the modern languages. Pali and Apabhraṃśa are indo-Aryan languages.
Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
Ariyaka script
The Ariyaka script (อักษรอริยกะ) is an obsolete alphabet, invented by King Mongkut as an alternative to transcribing Pali, the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
See Pali and ASCII
Ashoka
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
See Pali and Ashoka
Aspirated consonant
In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.
See Pali and Aspirated consonant
Assimilation (phonology)
Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds.
See Pali and Assimilation (phonology)
Attested language
In linguistics, attested languages are languages (living or dead) that have been documented and for which the evidence (“attestation”) has survived to the present day.
See Pali and Attested language
Atthakatha
Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka.
Avanti (region)
Avanti, was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Janapada), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region.
Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
See Pali and Bengal
Bengali–Assamese script
The Bengali–Assamese script, sometimes also known as Eastern Nagari, is an eastern Brahmic script, primarily used today for the Bengali and Assamese language spoken in eastern South Asia.
See Pali and Bengali–Assamese script
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.
See Pali and Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
See Pali and Bihar
Bilabial consonant
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.
See Pali and Bilabial consonant
Bookman (typeface)
Bookman, or Bookman Old Style, is a serif typeface.
See Pali and Bookman (typeface)
Brahmi script
Brahmi (ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India.
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
See Pali and Brahmin
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) is a modern linguistic category applied to the language used in a class of Indian Buddhist texts, such as the Perfection of Wisdom sutras. Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit are indo-Aryan languages.
See Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Burmese alphabet
The Burmese alphabet (မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya) is an abugida used for writing Burmese.
Burmese language
Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.
Buton Rinchen Drub
Butön Rinchen Drup, (1290–1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a 14th-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader.
See Pali and Buton Rinchen Drub
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Central consonant
A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
See Pali and Central consonant
Century type family
Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text.
See Pali and Century type family
Chakma script
The Chakma Script (Ajhā pāṭh), also called Ajhā pāṭh, Ojhapath, Ojhopath, Aaojhapath, is an abugida used for the Chakma language, and recently for the Pali language.
Chit Phumisak
Chit Phumisak (also spelt Jit Poumisak; จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์,; 25 September 1930 – 5 May 1966) was a Thai Marxist historian, activist, author, philologist, poet, songwriter, and communist revolutionary.
Christian Lassen
Christian Lassen (22 October 1800 – 8 May 1876) was a Norwegian-born, German orientalist and Indologist.
Chuon Nath
Chuon Nath (ជួន ណាត; 11 March 1883 – 25 September 1969) was a Cambodian monk and the late Gana Mahanikaya Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia.
Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
See Pali and Cognate
Colombo National Museum
The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Colombo National Museum
Courier (typeface)
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface commissioned by IBM and designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler (1919–1999) in the mid-1950s.
See Pali and Courier (typeface)
Daṇḍin
Daṇḍi or Daṇḍin (Sanskrit: दण्डि) was an Indian Sanskrit grammarian and author of prose romances.
See Pali and Daṇḍin
Dative case
In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".
David Kalupahana
David J. Kalupahana (1936–2014) was a Buddhist scholar from Sri Lanka.
Dīpavaṃsa
The Dīpavaṃsa (दीपवंस,, "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
See Pali and Denmark
Dental consonant
A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.
Deprecation
Deprecation is the discouragement of use of something human-made, such as a term, feature, design, or practice.
Devanagari
Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
Dhammapada
The Dhammapada (धम्मपद; Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.
Dharani
Dharanis (IAST), also known as Parittas, are Buddhist chants, mnemonic codes, incantations, or recitations, usually the mantras consisting of Sanskrit or Pali phrases.
See Pali and Dharani
Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
Divination
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.
Dravidian peoples
The Dravidian peoples are an ethnolinguistic supraethnicity composed of many distinct ethnolinguistic groups native to South Asia (predominantly India).
See Pali and Dravidian peoples
Early Buddhist schools
The early Buddhist schools are those schools into which the Buddhist monastic saṅgha split early in the history of Buddhism.
See Pali and Early Buddhist schools
East India
Eastern India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and also the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
The Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Māgadhan languages, are spoken throughout the eastern region of the subcontinent (East India, Bangladesh, Assam), which includes Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bengal region, Tripura, Assam, and Odisha; alongside other regions surrounding the northeastern Himalayan corridor. Pali and eastern Indo-Aryan languages are indo-Aryan languages.
See Pali and Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Egyptian language
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian, is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.
See Pali and Egyptian language
Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.
Eugène Burnouf
Eugène Burnouf (April 8, 1801May 28, 1852) was a French scholar, an Indologist and orientalist.
Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
Gandhari language
Gāndhārī was an Indo-Aryan Prakrit language found mainly in texts dated between the 3rd century BCE and 4th century CE in the region of Gandhāra, located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Pali and Gandhari language are indo-Aryan languages.
See Pali and Gandhari language
Gandhāran Buddhist texts
The Gandhāran Buddhist texts are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered, dating from about the 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE and found in the northwestern outskirts of the Indian subcontinent.
See Pali and Gandhāran Buddhist texts
Gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.
Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
Girnar
Girnar is an ancient hill in Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
See Pali and Girnar
Glottal consonant
Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.
See Pali and Glottal consonant
Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Pali and Grammatical gender
Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
Gupta script
The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script)Sharma, Ram.
Hathigumpha inscription
The Hathigumpha Inscription (pronounced: ɦɑːt̪ʰiːgumpʰɑː) is a seventeen line inscription in a Prakrit language incised in Brahmi script in a cavern called Hathigumpha in Udayagiri hills, near Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India.
See Pali and Hathigumpha inscription
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
Helvetica
Helvetica, also known by its original name Neue Haas Grotesk, is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
See Pali and Indian subcontinent
Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
See Pali and Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Iranian languages
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family.
See Pali and Indo-Iranian languages
Instrumental case
In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.
See Pali and Instrumental case
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.
See Pali and International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
Intervocalic consonant
In phonetics and phonology, an intervocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs between two vowels.
See Pali and Intervocalic consonant
ISO 15919
ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) is one of a series of international standards for romanization by the International Organization for Standardization.
ITC Avant Garde
ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a geometric sans serif font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine.
ITC Zapf Chancery
ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the type designer Hermann Zapf and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation.
See Pali and ITC Zapf Chancery
James Prinsep
James Prinsep (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary.
Janapada
The Janapadas (c. 1500–600 BCE) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent.
Jataka tales
The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
K. R. Norman
Kenneth Roy Norman (21 July 19255 November 2020) was a British philologist at the University of Cambridge and a leading authority on Pali and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages.
Kavyadarsha
The Kavyadarsha (काव्यादर्श) by Dandin is the earliest surviving systematic treatment of poetics in Sanskrit.
Kāvya
Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) refers to the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets flourishing between c.200 BCE and 1200 CE.
See Pali and Kāvya
Khamti language
The Khamti language is a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Myanmar and India by the Khamti people.
Khandhaka
Khandhaka is the second book of the Theravadin Vinaya Pitaka and includes the following two volumes.
Kharosthi
The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, was an ancient Indic script used by various peoples from the north-western outskirts of the Indian subcontinent (present-day Pakistan) to Central Asia via Afghanistan.
Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
Khmer script
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)Huffman, Franklin.
Khom Thai script
The Khom script (akson khom, or later akson khom thai; Aksone Khom; âksâr khâm) is a Brahmic script and a variant of the Khmer script used in Thailand and Laos, which is used to write Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer, Thai and Lao (Isan).
Khuddaka Nikāya
The Khuddaka Nikāya is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
Kingdom of Dambadeniya
The Kingdom of Dambadeniya was a medieval kingdom in what is present-day Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Kingdom of Dambadeniya
Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
Labiodental consonant
In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as and.
See Pali and Labiodental consonant
Lao language
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language.
Lao script
Lao script or Akson Lao (ອັກສອນລາວ) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
See Pali and Laos
Lateral consonant
A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.
See Pali and Lateral consonant
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
See Pali and Latin
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
Locative case
In grammar, the locative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which indicates a location.
Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
See Pali and Magadha
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit (Māgadhī) is of one of the three Dramatic Prakrits, the written languages of Ancient India following the decline of Pali. Pali and Magadhi Prakrit are indo-Aryan languages.
Magahi language
Magahi, also known as Magadhi, is a Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states of eastern India, and in the Terai of Nepal.
Maha Bodhi Society
The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society presently based in Kolkata, India.
See Pali and Maha Bodhi Society
Mahāsāṃghika
The Mahāsāṃghika (Brahmi: 𑀫𑀳𑀸𑀲𑀸𑀁𑀖𑀺𑀓, "of the Great Sangha") was a major division (nikāya) of the early Buddhist schools in India.
Mahāvaṃsa
Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura.
Major Rock Edicts
The Major Rock Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 14 separate major Edicts of Ashoka which are significantly detailed and represent some of the earliest dated rock inscriptions of any Indian monarch.
See Pali and Major Rock Edicts
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).
Metathesis (from Greek, from "I put in a different order"; Latin: transpositio) is the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence.
See Pali and Metathesis (linguistics)
Middle Indo-Aryan languages
The Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Middle Indic languages, sometimes conflated with the Prakrits, which are a stage of Middle Indic) are a historical group of languages of the Indo-Aryan family. Pali and Middle Indo-Aryan languages are indo-Aryan languages.
See Pali and Middle Indo-Aryan languages
Milinda Panha
The Milindapañha is a Buddhist text which dates from sometime between 100 BC and 200 AD.
Mon–Burmese script
The Mon–Burmese script (မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ; အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ,, อักษรมอญพม่า; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.
See Pali and Mon–Burmese script
Mongkut
Mongkut (มงกุฏ; 18 October 18041 October 1868) was the fourth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV.
See Pali and Mongkut
Monophthongization
Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift.
See Pali and Monophthongization
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
See Pali and Morphology (linguistics)
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
See Pali and Myanmar
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
See Pali and Nepal
Nepalese scripts
Nepalese scripts (Nepal Lipi: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑐮 𑐁𑐏𑐮, Devanagari: नेपाल आखल) are a family of alphabetic writing systems employed historically in Nepal Mandala by the indigenous Newar people for primarily writing Nepal Bhasa.
Nikāya
Nikāya (निकाय) is a Pāli word meaning "volume".
See Pali and Nikāya
Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
Old Burmese
Old Burmese was an early form of the Burmese language, as attested in the stone inscriptions of Pagan, and is the oldest phase of Burmese linguistic history.
Ordinal number
In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.
Oriental studies
Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology.
Pagan Kingdom
The Kingdom of Pagan (ပုဂံခေတ်,,; also known as the Pagan dynasty and the Pagan Empire; also the Bagan dynasty or Bagan Empire) was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar.
Paishachi
Paishachi or Paisaci is a largely unattested literary language of the middle kingdoms of India mentioned in Prakrit and Sanskrit grammars of antiquity. Pali and Paishachi are indo-Aryan languages.
Palatal consonant
Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
See Pali and Palatal consonant
Palatino
Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.
Pali literature
Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali is the traditional language.
Pali Text Society
The Pāli Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts." Pāli is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism are preserved.
See Pali and Pali Text Society
Palm-leaf manuscript
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves.
See Pali and Palm-leaf manuscript
Parakramabahu II of Dambadeniya
Parakramabahu II, also known as Panditha Parakramabāhu, was the King of Dambadeniya in 13th century, whose reign lasted from 1236 to 1270.
See Pali and Parakramabahu II of Dambadeniya
Paramatthamañjusā
Paramatthamañjusā is a piece of Theravada Buddhist subcommentary literature (tīkā) by Dhammapāla on Buddhaghosa's 5th century work Visuddhimagga (English: The Path of Purification).
See Pali and Paramatthamañjusā
Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
See Pali and Phoneme
Plosive
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
See Pali and Plosive
Postalveolar consonant
Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
See Pali and Postalveolar consonant
Pracalit script
Prachalit, also known as Newa, Newar, Newari, or Nepāla lipi is a type of abugida script developed from the Nepalese scripts, which are a part of the family of Brahmic scripts descended from Brahmi script.
Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. Pali and Prakrit are indo-Aryan languages.
See Pali and Prakrit
Pratītyasamutpāda gāthā
The Pratītyasamutpāda-gāthā, also referred to as the Pratītyasamutpāda-dhāraṇī (dependent origination incantation) or ye dharmā hetu, is a verse (gāthā) and a dhāraṇī widely used by Buddhists in ancient times which was held to have the function of a mantra or sacred spell.
See Pali and Pratītyasamutpāda gāthā
Prestige (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.
See Pali and Prestige (sociolinguistics)
Prix Volney
The Prix Volney (Volney Medal) is awarded by the Institute of France after proposition by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to a work of comparative philology.
Retroflex consonant
A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.
See Pali and Retroflex consonant
Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
See Pali and Rigveda
Robert Caesar Childers
Robert Caesar Childers (183825 July 1876) was a British Orientalist and the compiler of the first PaliEnglish dictionary to be published.
See Pali and Robert Caesar Childers
Royal Library, Denmark
The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) in Copenhagen is the national library of Denmark and the university library of the University of Copenhagen.
See Pali and Royal Library, Denmark
Sacred language
A sacred language, holy language or liturgical language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like Mosque service) by people who speak another, primary language (like Persian, Urdu, Pashtu, Balochi, Sindhi etc.) in their daily lives. Pali and sacred language are sacred languages.
Samantapasadika
Samantapāsādikā refers to a collection of Pali commentaries on the Theravada Tipitaka Vinaya.
Sangha
Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.
See Pali and Sangha
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Pali and Sanskrit are indo-Aryan languages and sacred languages.
Sarvastivada
The Sarvāstivāda (𑀲𑀭𑁆𑀯𑀸𑀲𑁆𑀢𑀺𑀯𑀸𑀤; Sabbatthivāda;สรวาสติวาท) was one of the early Buddhist schools established around the reign of Ashoka (third century BCE).
Saurashtra (region)
Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.
See Pali and Saurashtra (region)
Sibilant
Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.
Simon de la Loubère
Simon de la Loubère (21 April 1642 – 26 March 1729) was a French diplomat to Siam (Thailand), writer, mathematician and poet.
See Pali and Simon de la Loubère
Sinhala language
Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.
Sinhala script
The Sinhala script (Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.
South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Sten Konow
Sten Konow Sten Konow (17 April 1867 – 29 June 1948) was a Norwegian Indologist.
Steven Collins (Buddhist studies scholar)
Steven Collins (16 September 1951 – 15 February 2018) was a British-born Buddhist studies scholar.
See Pali and Steven Collins (Buddhist studies scholar)
Sthavira nikāya
The Sthavira nikāya (Sanskrit "Sect of the Elders") was one of the early Buddhist schools.
The sub-commentaries (Pali: ṭīkā) are primarily commentaries on the commentaries (Pali: aṭṭhakathā) on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, written in Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Sub-commentaries (Theravāda)
Supernatural
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.
Sutta Piṭaka
The Sutta Piṭaka (also referred to as Sūtra Piṭaka or Suttanta Piṭaka; English: Basket of Discourse) is the second of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism.
Tai Tham script
Tai Tham script (Tham meaning "scripture") is an abugida writing system used mainly for a group of Southwestern Tai languages i.e., Northern Thai, Tai Lü, Khün and Lao; as well as the liturgical languages of Buddhism i.e., Pali and Sanskrit.
TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.
See Pali and TeX
Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
Thai script
The Thai script (อักษรไทย) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
Theravāda Abhidhamma
The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma).
See Pali and Theravāda Abhidhamma
Times New Roman
Times New Roman is a serif typeface.
Tripiṭaka
Tipiṭaka or Tripiṭaka, meaning "Triple Basket", is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures.
Tuscan dialect
Tuscan (dialetto toscano; label) is a set of Italo-Dalmatian varieties of Romance spoken in Tuscany, Corsica, and Sardinia.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
See Pali and Unicode
Vaṃsa
Vamsa (translit-std) is a Sanskrit word that means 'family, lineage'.
See Pali and Vaṃsa
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh (1 January 188126 November 1925) was the sixth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VI.
Valagamba of Anuradhapura
Valagamba (Sinhala: වළගම්බා), also known as the Great Black Lion, Wattagamani Abhaya and Valagambahu, was a king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka.
See Pali and Valagamba of Anuradhapura
Vedic Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. Pali and Vedic Sanskrit are indo-Aryan languages.
Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
Velthuis
The Velthuis system of transliteration is an ASCII transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit language from and to the Devanagari script.
Vihāra
Vihāra generally refers to a Buddhist monastery for Buddhist renunciates, mostly in the Indian subcontinent.
See Pali and Vihāra
Vinaya Piṭaka
The Vinaya Piṭaka (English: Basket of Discipline) is the first of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism.
Visarga
Visarga (translit-std), in Sanskrit phonology (śikṣā), is the name of the voiceless glottal fricative,, written as 'ः'.
See Pali and Visarga
Visuddhimagga
The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka.
Vocative case
In grammar, the vocative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed or occasionally for the noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) of that noun.
Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
See Pali and Voice (phonetics)
Voicelessness
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.
Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
See Pali and Western esotericism
Western India
Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of Republic of India.
Wilhelm Geiger
Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (21 July 1856 – 2 September 1943) was a German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka.
See also
Ancient languages
- Ancient language
- Ancient literature
- Avestan
- Celtiberian language
- Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts
- Decipherment of cuneiform
- Gutian language
- Imperial Aramaic
- Languages of the Roman Empire
- List of ancient peoples of Italy
- Lullubi
- Malayalam
- Old Balinese
- Old Japanese
- Old Yue language
- Pali
- Proto-Euphratean language
- Telugu language
- Trojan language
Sacred languages
- Avestan
- Avestan language
- Biblical Hebrew
- Cherokee language
- Church Slavonic in Romania
- Classical Arabic
- Classical Mongolian language
- Classical Tibetan
- Dingal
- Egyptien de tradition
- Enochian
- Habla Congo
- Iyaric
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
- Lashon Hakodesh
- Lhasa Tibetan
- Lucumí language
- Mandaic language
- Medefaidrin
- Pali
- Sacred language
- Sanskrit
- Tarjumo language
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali
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