prakrit

Prakrit (also spelt Pracrit) (Sanskrit: , "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", i.e. "vernacular", in contrast to "excellently made", both adjectives elliptically referring to vāk "speech") refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the Kshatriya caste, but were regarded as illegitimate by the Brahmin orthodoxy. The earliest extant use of Prakrit are the inscriptions of Asoka, emperor of Northern India, and while the various Prakrit languages are associated with different patron dynasties, with different religions and different literary traditions, none of them were at any time an informal "mother tongue" in any area of India.
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Noun
1. any of the modern Indic languages
(hypernym) Indic, Indo-Aryan
2. 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
(hypernym) Indic, Indo-Aryan
(hyponym) Pali

(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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