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Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka

By Thomas Oberlies

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2001
ISBN
3110167638, 9783110167634
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19573045 bytes)
Series
Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 3
Pages
152\408
Time added
2018-03-16 18:15:58
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Description

The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.

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