Pali

Pali
Pāḷi
Native to	Cambodia, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Native speakers	No native speakers, used as a literary and liturgical language only  (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Pali
Writing system	Brāhmī and derived scripts and Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1	pi
ISO 639-2	pli
ISO 639-3	pli

Pali is an old language. It used to be spoken in India, and is similar to Sanskrit. Pali is used in religious services by Theravada Buddhists. The Theravada holy texts, called the Pali Canon, are written in Pali. Pali is usually called a dead language. Bengali originates from the Pali

Other websites

• Pāli-English dictionary
• Pāli at Ethnologue
• Pali Text Society
• Pāli Canon selection