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- proper noun Plural form of
Prakrit .
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Sharing the same origins as Classical Sanskrit was the unregulated language Prakrits.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Sharing the same origins as Classical Sanskrit was the unregulated language Prakrits.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Yes, when I took Sanskrit the professor repeatedly drummed it into us that Sanskrit was basically a Middle Indic language with plenty of borrowings including, if I'm remembering correctly, borrowing from the Prakrits, but gussied up to look like "a purified IE-Indic standard."
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In the days of the Buddha it had long given place to various vernaculars grown out of it: Pali, and what are called the Prakrits.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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