Pāli (/ˈpɑːli/, IAST: pāl̤i) is a classical Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of...

canon surviving in a classical Indian language, Pāli, which serves as the school's sacred language and lingua franca. In contrast to Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna...

Pange Lingua sung in Latin The Latin text of Pange Lingua sung to its traditional melody, mode iii Gregorian chant Problems playing this file? See media...

Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's largest ethnic...

In Theravāda Buddhism, pariyatti, paṭipatti, paṭivedha (Pāli; "Learning; practicing; realizing") is the educational concept consisting of three progressive...

in the revival and preservation of the Pali language as the scriptural language of the Theravada, and as a lingua franca in the exchange of ideas, texts...

species and in other scientific terminology. Koine Greek, which served as a lingua franca in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language...

the Indo-European language family. Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is...

languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...

sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian...

constructed language. The concept is related to but separate from the idea of a lingua franca (or dominant language) that people must use to communicate. The study...

main textual collection, the Pali Canon as well as other forms of Pali literature. The Pali language is thus its lingua franca and sacred language. This...

regional variations. In Laos, Lao is not only the official language but also a lingua franca, bridging the linguistic diversity of a population that speaks many...

Bamar speak the Burmese language which serves as the national language and lingua franca of Myanmar. In the Burmese language, Bamar (ဗမာ, also transcribed...

appearing throughout the Shan lexicon, including loanwords borrowed from Pali via Burmese. Burmese appears to have also influenced Shan grammar, with respect...

a second official language in 15 districts. Bihari Hindi serves as the lingua franca of the region. Exact speaker numbers for the main Bihari languages...

that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic...

language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) refers to vernacular varieties...

Theravada Buddhism uses Pali as its main liturgical language and prefers that scripture be studied in the original Pali.[citation needed] Pali is derived from...

Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and...

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani-speaking community...

official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of Hindustani...

development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under the Delhi Sultanate and Bahmani Sultanates, as trade and migration...

speak another language as their mother tongue. Indonesian functions as the lingua franca for speakers of 700 various languages across the archipelago. Conversely...

Buddhadatta, Sri Lankan Buddhists adopted Pali as their main scholastic language. These figures wrote new commentaries in Pali (basing themselves on the old Sinhala...

language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule language, the status...

regions of Vietnam. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism...

classical language to Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu. This status is given to languages that...

dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca of Northern India that is the basis of the Modern Standard Hindi...

broad-based culture. In something of the same way Sanskrit in India and Nepal, and Pali in Sri Lanka and in Theravada countries of South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand...