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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShiningStar" data-source="post: 27400039" data-attributes="member: 565650">Found this interesting article about the origin of Pali language on WikipediaThere is persistent confusion as to the relation of Pāḷi to the vernacular spoken in the ancient kingdom of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadha" target="_blank">Magadha</a>, which was located around modern-day <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar_(India)" target="_blank">Bihār</a>. Beginning in the Theravada commentaries, Pali was identified with '<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magahi" target="_blank">Magahi</a>', the language of the kingdom of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadha" target="_blank">Magadha</a>, and this was taken to also be the language that the Buddha used during his life.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Norman-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> In the 19th century, the British <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_studies" target="_blank">Orientalist</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Caesar_Childers" target="_blank">Robert Caesar Childers</a> argued that the true or geographical name of the Pali language was <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadhi_Prakrit" target="_blank">Magadhi Prakrit</a>, and that because pāḷi means "line, row, series", the early Buddhists extended the meaning of the term to mean "a series of books", so pāḷibhāsā means "language of the texts".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a>However, modern scholarship has regarded Pali as a mix of several <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prakrit" target="_blank">Prakrit</a> languages from around the 3rd century BCE, combined and partially Sanskritized.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Bhikkhu_Bodhi_2005,_page_10-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> There is no attested dialect of Middle Indo-Aryan with all the features of Pali.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Norman-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>: 5 In the modern era, it has been possible to compare Pali with inscriptions known to be in Magadhi Prakrit, as well as other texts and grammars of that language.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Norman-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> While none of the existing sources specifically document pre-Ashokan Magadhi, the available sources suggest that Pali is not equatable with that language.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Norman-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>Modern scholars generally regard Pali to have originated from a western dialect, rather than an eastern one.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Collins-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> Pali has some commonalities with both the western <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka%27s_Major_Rock_Edicts" target="_blank">Ashokan Edicts</a> at <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girnar" target="_blank">Girnar</a> in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurashtra_(region)" target="_blank">Saurashtra</a>, and the Central-Western Prakrit found in the eastern <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathigumpha_inscription" target="_blank">Hathigumpha inscription</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Norman-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>: 5 These similarities lead scholars to associate Pali with this region of western India.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Hirakawa,_Akira_2007._p._119-9" target="_blank">[9]</a> Nonetheless, Pali does retain some eastern features that have been referred to as Māgadhisms.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-Gethin2008-10" target="_blank">[10]</a>Pāḷi, as a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Indo-Aryan_languages" target="_blank">Middle Indo-Aryan language</a>, is different from <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" target="_blank">Classical Sanskrit</a> more with regard to its dialectal base than the time of its origin. A number of its <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" target="_blank">morphological</a> and lexical features show that it is not a direct continuation of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda" target="_blank">Ṛgvedic</a> Sanskrit. Instead it descends from one or more dialects that were, despite many similarities, different from Ṛgvedic.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali#cite_note-11" target="_blank">[11]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali</a></blockquote>

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