prakrit

IPA: prˈækrɪt

Root Word: Prakrit

Any one of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages, all derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

Examples of "prakrit" in Sentences

Prakrit was not a single language.
The same could be said for poetics, prosody and Prakrit.
Pali is a literary language of the Prakrit language family.
Scholars usually refer to this language as Sinhalese Prakrit.
Brathaputra means nephew in Prakrit, the language in the coin.
Sanskrit was deliberately not written down as early as Prakrit .
He takes an interest in Sanskrit and Prakrit literature on religion.
In case of Jain terms, the Prakrit forms of the words are the original.
And it was on the language prakrit that the language sanskrit was refined.
Grammatically it is 'genetically' linked to the older language of Prakrit.
Having studied sanskrit script, prakrit scripts, and tibetan script I am more of a proficient in writing systems than in spoken language, I agree that Lepcha script is more rightly emanated from Tibetan script than from the Mongolian.