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Detailed explanation-1: -The language discourses of Gautam Buddha was Pali. It is the sacred language of some religious texts of Hinduism and all texts of Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many Buddhists are familiar with the Pāli word sutta: it is equivalent to the Sanskrit word sūtra and it means ‘discourse’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pāli language, classical and liturgical language of the Theravāda Buddhist canon, a Middle Indo-Aryan language of north Indian origin. On the whole, Pāli seems closely related to the Old Indo-Aryan Vedic and Sanskrit dialects but is apparently not directly descended from either of these.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Buddha’s teachings are written in Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, south-east Asian languages, and subsequently Western languages.