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Current Version: 4.7.554
Palisacred language of the Theravada Buddhist canon, a Middle Indo-Aryan language of north Indian origin. On the whole, Pali seems closely related to the Old Indo-Aryan Vedic and Sanskrit dialects but is apparently not directly descended from either of these. Pali's use as a Buddhist canonical language came about because the Buddha opposed the use of Sanskrit, a learned language, as a vehicle for his teachings and encouraged his followers to use vernacular dialects. In time, his orally transmitted sayings spread through India to Ceylon (c. 3rd century BC), where they were written down in Pali (1st century BC), a literary language of rather mixed vernacular origins. Pali eventually became a revered, standard, and international tongue. The language and the Theravada canon known as Tipitaka (Sanskrit: Tripitaka) were brought to Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Pali died out as a literary language in mainland India in the 14th century but survived elsewhere until the 18th. (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
All rights reserved for the authors of the dictionaries. Please, contact the authors of the dictionaries for all questions concerning the contents and copyrights of the dictionaries. T.H.I.S. makes input of complex scripts easier & faster: The Heidelberg Input Solution© 2003 by Bao Do (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany), Roomy Naqvy (JMI, New Delhi, India) & Linguasoft (Vienna, Austria) Set #1: Sanskrit / Pali / HindiT.H.I.S. Set #1 comes with a set of Keyman(tm)-based mnemonic keyboards for the input of Sanskrit, Pali, and Hindi in Devanagari script or Latin transliteration. Keyboard layouts follow the standard layouts of Kbd US, Kbd US International, and Kbd DE (German). Typing Devanagari is now as easy as typing Latin script, as both can be typed with exactly the same keys or key combinations! What's more, you can type any language supported by Kbd US International or Kbd DE *without* having to switch back to the standard drivers for these keyboards. For more sophisticated requirements, special rules for typing combining accents have been provided that help you to create thousands of accented Latin characters needed for specialized linguistic or scientific text input. There are also special rules for Hindi transliteration by using combining tilde, and special rules for dashes and typographic quotes (English, French, and German variants) that allow you to make full use of your word-processor's typographic capabilities without having to activate AutoFormat options that may produce unwanted results in certain contexts. Note: For full support of Unicoded Indic scripts, you should use Microsoft WindowsXP and/or Microsoft OfficeXP environments. Download: Any comments or suggestions? Please contact baodo@t-online.de or linguasoft@surfeu.at |
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