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Prakrit
Prakrit Pra"krit, n. [Skr. pr[=a]k[.r]ta original, natural,
usual, common, vulgar.]
Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to,
Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used
as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by
the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.
Meaning of Prakrit from wikipedia
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Prakrit (/
ˈprɑːkrɪt/) is a
group of
vernacular classical Middle Indo-Aryan
languages that were used in the
Indian subcontinent from
around the 5th century...
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Magadhi Prakrit (Māgadhī) is of one of the
three Dramatic Prakrits, the
written languages of
Ancient India following the
decline of Pali. It was a vernacular...
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Shauraseni Prakrit (Sanskrit: शौरसेनी प्राकृत, romanized: Śaurasenī Prākṛta) was a
Middle Indo-Aryan
language and a
Dramatic Prakrit.
Shauraseni was the...
- "corrupted"), from the
dramatic Prakrits, and
further from Sanskrit. An
example is
Hindustani jībh "tongue",
inherited through Prakrit jibbhā, from
Sanskrit jihvā...
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Maharashtri or
Maharashtri Prakrit (Mahārāṣṭrī Prākṛta) is a
Prakrit language of
ancient as well as
medieval India.
Maharashtri Prakrit was
commonly spoken until...
- both
Hindi and Urdu
share a core
vocabulary base
derived from
Shauraseni Prakrit (a
descendant of
Vedic Sanskrit).
Hindi is also spoken, to a
lesser extent...
- such as
early Vedic Sanskrit,
through Middle Indo-Aryan
languages (or
Prakrits). The
largest such
languages in
terms of first-speakers are Hindi–Urdu...
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Khasa Prakrit (also
known as Khas
Prakrit,
Sanskrit Khasa,
Himalayan Prakrit,
Northern Prakrit, Khas Kura) is a
Prakrit language of
medieval South Asia...
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Ardhamagadhi Prakrit was a
Middle Indo-Aryan
language and a
Dramatic Prakrit thought to have been
spoken in modern-day
Bihar and
Uttar Pradesh and used...
- Indo-Aryan
language family. It
descends from Odra
Prakrit which itself evolved from
Magadhi Prakrit. The
latter was
spoken in east
India over 1,500 years...
