Pali | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Pali


00:00:27 1 Origin and development
00:00:37 1.1 Etymology
00:02:30 1.2 Classification
00:03:20 1.3 Early history
00:03:29 1.3.1 Pāli and Paiśācī
00:04:35 1.3.2 Theravada Buddhism
00:06:28 1.3.3 Early Western views
00:08:23 1.3.4 Modern scholarship
00:09:53 1.4 Pali today
00:11:54 2 Lexicon
00:13:37 3 Emic views of Pali
00:15:15 4 Phonology
00:15:24 4.1 Vowels
00:16:41 4.2 Consonants
00:17:16 5 Morphology
00:17:45 5.1 Nominal inflection
00:18:25 5.1.1 a-stems
00:18:45 5.1.2 ā-stems
00:18:57 5.1.3 i-stems and u-stems
00:19:18 6 Linguistic analysis of a Pali text
00:21:34 7 Ardha-Magadhi
00:22:27 8 Sanskrit
00:23:45 8.1 Vowels and diphthongs
00:24:43 8.2 Consonants
00:24:52 8.2.1 Sound changes
00:25:14 8.2.2 Assimilations
00:25:22 8.2.2.1 General rules
00:26:51 8.2.2.2 Total assimilation
00:27:13 8.2.2.2.1 Regressive assimilations
00:28:36 8.2.2.2.2 Progressive assimilations
00:30:08 8.2.2.3 Partial and mutual assimilation
00:31:58 8.2.3 Epenthesis
00:33:19 8.2.4 Other changes
00:34:25 8.3 Exceptions
00:34:53 9 Writing
00:35:02 9.1 Alphabet with diacritics
00:36:45 9.2 Transliteration on computers
00:45:24 9.3 Text in ASCII
00:46:05 10 See also



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Pali (; Pāli) is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka, and is the sacred language of some religious texts of Hinduism and all texts of Theravāda Buddhism.  The earliest archaeological evidence of the existence of canonical Pali comes from Pyu city-states inscriptions found in Burma dated to the mid 5th to mid 6th century CE.