Pali
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A language of India
ISO 639-3
Population
No known L1 speakers in India. Ethnic population: No ethnic community. Total users in all countries: none known.
Location
Scattered.
Language Status
9 (Second language only).
Classification
Language Use
Classical and liturgical language of the Theravada Buddhist canon. Positive attitudes.
Language Development
Grammar. NT: 1835.
Language Resources
Pali was a revered standard and international language because the oral sayings of Buddha were recorded in it in the first century BCE, but it died out in mainland India as a literary language in the fourteenth century. Buddhist.