Aśokan Phonology and the Language of the Earliest Buddhist Tradition
The extant Middle Indic Buddhist scriptures in Pāli, BHS and Gāndhārī, are translation remnants from a lost oral transmission dialect called Buddhist Middle Indic (BMI). BMI was a kind of Buddhist lingua franca, a phonologically simplified portmanteau language, free of the most conspicuous differenc...
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Simon Fraser University, David See Chai Lam Centre for International Communication
2010
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Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 6, Pages: 57-86 |
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