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Pali Canon Scripts

Pali has no script of its own: the canon is written in Sinhala script in Sri Lanka, Burmese in Myanmar, Thai in Thailand, Khmer in Cambodia, and Devanagari or Latin letters elsewhere.

Languages Written in This Script

The Codex Gigas, the largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript

Liturgical only Pali The canonical language of Theravada Buddhism, in which the Pali Canon is preserved and recited. Indo-European

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