💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Prakrit"
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| ardhamagadhi prakritnoun | A Middle Indo-Aryan language and a Dramatic Prakrit thought to have been spoken in modern-day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and used in some early Buddhist and Jain drama. |
| ashokan prakritnoun | The Early Middle Indo-Aryan languages represented in the inscriptions left during the reign of Ashoka, an Indian emperor of the 3rd century BCE. |
| old indicnoun | The oldest form of Indo-Aryan languages, specifically Vedic or classical Sanskrit (ca. 1500–300 BCE) |
| proto-indo-aryannoun | The reconstructed proto-language —having descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian— that is the immediate predecessor of Old Indo-Aryan. |
| new indo-aryannoun | The current stage of the Indo-Aryan languages, representing an evolution from Middle Indo-Aryan. |
| gāndhārīnoun | An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled. |
| apabhramshanoun | The languages of the final stage of Middle Indo-Aryan, spoken during the 6th – 13th centuries CE. |
| maharashtrinoun | A Prakrit language of ancient and medieval India, the ancestor of Marathi and Konkani. |
| shanskritnoun | Obsolete form of Sanskrit. [A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.] |
| old indo-aryannoun | The earliest attested stage of the Indo-Aryan languages that developed from Proto-Indo-Aryan, exemplified by Sanskrit as well as Mitanni-Aryan. |
| palinoun | A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism. |
| middle indo-aryannoun | The stage of the Indo-Aryan languages following Vedic Sanskrit and preceding the modern Indo-Aryan languages. |
| shanscritnoun | Obsolete form of Sanskrit. [A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.] |
| indiannoun | Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies. |
| dravidiannoun | A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh. |
| braj bhashanoun | An Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and considered a variety of Western Hindi. |
| paharinoun | In South Asia, someone from the hills or mountains, a hillman; specifically a member of any of various peoples living in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal. |
| indoaryannoun | Alternative spelling of Indo-Aryan. [Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.] |
| proto-indo-iraniannoun | (linguistics, uncountable) The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages, the Dardic languages and the Nuristani languages. |
| sanskritnoun | A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism. |
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