misunderstanding of the compound pāli-bhāsa, with pāli being interpreted as the name of a particular language.: 1  The name Pali does not appear in the canonical...

(anglicized from Pali theravādī), have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha's teaching or dhamma in the Pāli Canon for over two millennia. The Pāli Canon is...

a lingua franca in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some Eastern Orthodox churches. Latin became the lingua franca...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

since then. In 1881, the Pali Text Society was founded by three English civil servants in Sri Lanka. The PTS publication of the Pāli Canon in latin script...

script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...