PRAKRIT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Prakrit" is a kind of...):

Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Prakrit"):

Pali (an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism)

Derivation:

Prakritic (of or relating to Prakrit)

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