PALI

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Meaning:

An ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Pali" is a kind of...):

Prakrit (any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD)

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