Prakrit literature. The most notable Prakrit languages were the Jain Prakrit (Ardhamagadhi), Pali, Gāndhārī, Maharashtri and Shauraseni. One of the earliest extant Prakrit works is Hāla's anthology of poems in Maharashtri, the Gāhā Sattasaī, dating to the 3rd to 5th century CE.

Some loanwords in the variant of the Hurrian language spoken in the Mitanni kingdom, during the 2nd millennium BCE, are identifiable as originating in an Indo-Aryan language; these are considered to constitute an Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni (or in Mitanni Hurrian). The words in question are theonyms, proper names and technical terminology.. It is generally believed that …

印度语言非常复杂，根据2001年的统计，全印度共有1396種可識別的“母語”(Mother Tongue)。該1396種母語經過語言學的分析，又可以組合成另外的“語言”（Languages）。全印度共有29种语言的使用人口超过一百万，有121种语言的使用人口超过一万人， 这些语言主要分属于两大语系：印欧语系的印度 ...