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Pali (IAST: ) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. It is most famous as the liturgical language in which the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism (also known as the Pāli Canon or in Pāli the Tipitaka) were written down in Sri Lanka in the 1st century BCE in the Sinhalese script. Pāli has been written in a variety of scripts, from Brahmic family scripts through to a romanised form devised by T. W. Rhys Davids of the Pali Text Society.