Langenesis

Indo-European family

Magadhi Prakrit

c. 300 BCE – 600 CE Extinct

Magadhi Prakrit (c. 300 BCE – 600 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 6 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan → Vedic Sanskrit → Magadhi Prakrit.

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Eastern Prakrit of Magadha (modern Bihar), used for lower-class speech in Sanskrit drama. Ancestral to the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Magadhi Prakritc. 300 BCE – 600 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 9

Also descended from Vedic Sanskrit.

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