1) Indic 2) Indo-aryan
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1) Pali
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Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit: prākṛta प्राकृत, Shauraseni:{IAST|pāuda} पाउद, Maharashtri:{IAST|pāua} पाउअ) is the name for any of several Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages,{rp|p.3} The Ardhamagadhi language (`half Magadhi`), an archai.....
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• (n.) 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.
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Pra'krit noun [ Sanskrit
prākrta 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
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noun any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD
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General name for the ancient Indo-European dialects of northern India, contrasted with the sacred classical language Sanskrit. The word is itself Sanskrit, meaning `natural`, as opposed to
Sanskrit, which means `perfected`. The Prakrits are considered to be the ancestors of such modern northern Indian lang...
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any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.
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