Konkani (Kōṅkaṇī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, and the official language of the Indian state of Goa.It is a minority language in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat & Damaon, Diu & Silvassa.

Characters each spoke a different Prakrit based on their role and background; for example, Dramili was the language of "forest-dwellers", Sauraseni was spoken by "the heroine and her female friends", and Avanti was spoken by "cheats and rogues". Maharashtri and Shaurseni Prakrit were more common and were used in literature extensively.

Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion.It is a vast and ancient literary tradition, which was initially transmitted orally. The oldest surviving material is contained in the canonical Jain Agamas, which are written in Ardhamagadhi, a Prakrit (Middle-Indo Aryan) language.Various commentaries were written on these canonical texts ...

The Prakrit languages of India also have ancient roots and some Sanskrit scholars have called these Apabhramsa, literally ... along with Magadhi, Maharashtri, Sinhala, Sauraseni and Niya (Gandhari), emerge in the Middle Indo-Aryan stage in two versions—archaic and more formalized—that may be placed in early and middle substages of the ...

Assamese (/ ˌ æ s ə ˈ m iː z /), also Asamiya (অসমীয়া), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-east Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language, and it serves as a lingua franca of the wider region. The easternmost Indo-Iranian language, it has over 23 million speakers.. Nefamese, an Assamese-based pidgin, is used in Arunachal Pradesh, and …

ภาษาสันสกฤต; संस्कृतम् สํสฺกฺฤตมฺ: (บน) เอกสารตัวเขียนภาษาสันสกฤตสมัยคริสต์ศตวรรษที่ 19 จาก ภควัทคีตา ซึ่งแต่งขึ้นในช่วงประมาณ 400–200 ปีก่อน ...

Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi is a direct descendant of an early form of Vedic Sanskrit, through Sauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from Sanskrit apabhraṃśa "corrupt"), which emerged in the 7th century CE. The sound changes that characterised the transition from Middle Indo-Aryan to Hindi are:

The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about or more than 3.5 billion people (roughly half of the world population).Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups of Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family.Therefore, Indo-European is the biggest …

Einige periphere indoarische Sprachen haben dieses System vereinfacht. Im Singhalesischen ist (wohl unter tamilischem Einfluss) die Aspiration verloren gegangen, während Asamiya keine retroflexen Laute kennt. Andere Sprachen haben zusätzliche Phoneme entwickelt, Sindhi etwa die Implosive [], [], [], und [].Was die Nasale angeht, waren ursprünglich nur m, das dentale n und …

Etymology. Gaṅga Ram Garg considers the Ahir to be a tribe descended from the ancient Abhira community, whose precise location in India is the subject of various theories based mostly on interpretations of old texts such as the Mahabharata and the writings of Ptolemy.He believes the word Ahir to be the Prakrit form of a Sanskrit word, Abhira, and he notes that the present term …