Indo-European Context

http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html

Introduction to the more important language families including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Malayo-Polynesian, Niger-Congo, Dravidian and others.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130723213802/http://www.oration.com/~mm9n/articles/dev/04Sanskrit.htm

Chapter from the book "The Development of Hinduism" by Prof. M.M. Ninan.

https://jainworld.com/literature/jain-agams/

Jain sacred books, composed in Ardha-Magadhi language, a close relative of Pali.

http://dhamma.ru/paali/palisan.htm

A useful table from the "Grammatik des Pali" by Achim Fachs which allows to find the Ancient Indian correspondences of the Pali words.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jainlist/message/2498

An article by Dr Devendra Kumar Jain about the history of Indian languages, including Pali.

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html

Comprehensive resources: historical developments, manuscripts, calligraphy, classical languages and texts.