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 1  Pre |      help in honing down the language of the translation. Also,
 2  Int |  Pali -- a heavily inflected language -- that allows, say, one
 3  Int |       both to streamline the language and to lighten the gender
 4 Notes|   Assumptions concerning the language in which the original Dhp
 5 Notes|    to have been the original language of the text, and will further
 6 Notes|     about the Dhp's original language and the ineptitude of ancient
 7 Notes|      what the Dhp's original language was. In fact, as we will
 8 Notes|      poetry in more than one language, and more than one version
 9 Notes| based on an assumed original language of the Dhp tell us more
10 Notes|     was composed in a single language. ~However, these assumptions
11 Notes| raised questions about which language the Buddha spoke, it might
12 Notes|   question of "the" original language or "the" original text of