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Jeisuke · **Posted:** Wed 02 Dec 2009 6:08 am

Hi All,
Here is a wonderful resource for Lao Manuscripts and for PDF downloads of books on Lao Pali and Lao Dham.
Here is the link: http://www.laomanuscripts.net/en/pages/ ... angscripts

Click on the "Baep hian vai - hian an nangsue tham khian pen phasa lao" and "Baep hian vai - hian an nangsue tham khian pen phasa pali"

EXCELLENT resources for the Lao Dham / Tham Tua script.

Yaziq · Joined:Tue 19 May 2009 5:58 pm Posts:109

I'm not clear on exactly what Pali was or is. My impression is that Pali is primarily a writing system that can be used to write several languages. These could include mainly Lao, Khmer and Burmese. But these languages are not written in Pali on a daily basis. Am I correct?

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Thu 03 Dec 2009 1:19 am

Yaziq wrote:

I'm not clear on exactly what Pali was or is. My impression is that Pali is primarily a writing system that can be used to write several languages. These could include mainly Lao, Khmer and Burmese. But these languages are not written in Pali on a daily basis. Am I correct?

Actually, Pali is a medieval Indo-Aryan language that was originally written in Brahmi. It survives today as a liturgical language of Buddhism, especially for the Hinayana/Theravada schools.