--- Eukesh Ranjit <eukeshranjit@...> skrev:

> Wandanaa all,
> I found the link to this group in Pali wikipedia
> (online free to edit
> and free to use encyclopedia in Pali language).
> Currently, I am the
> administrator there. However, the wikipedia is not
> doing well due to
> lack of articles in the language. The lack of
> articles might have been
> due to lack of knowledge of Devnagari amongst users.

Why Devanagari? As far as I know, Devanagari has been
used for Pali only for a very short time, and only
locally in India. Devanagari became standard script
for Sanskrit in the 18th century, not earlier, and
Pali still doesn't have a standard script. Sinhalese,
Burmese and Thai scripts (perhaps Khmer script as
well) are probably more used than Devanagari for Pali,
but the only Pali script that is used more than
locally may be Roman.

I think the main problem for the Pali Wikipedia is the
fact that very few people have an active writing
capacity in Pali. For most of us it is an "input
language", a language which we try to read and
understand out of interest in the Pali texts, but not
a language in which we are able to express ourselves
freely.

Gunnar







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