Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka
By Thoman Oberlies
Distributed by Coronet Books Inc.
The grammar presents a full description of Pail, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and Southeast Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehension 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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