Langenesis

Indo-European family

Maharashtri Prakrit

c. 300 BCE – 800 CE Extinct

Maharashtri Prakrit (c. 300 BCE – 800 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 2 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan → Vedic Sanskrit → Maharashtri Prakrit.

See Maharashtri Prakrit on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
pmh

Southern Prakrit and the premier medium of Prakrit lyric poetry (e.g. the Gāhāsattasaī). Ancestral to Marathi and Konkani.

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. Maharashtri Prakritc. 300 BCE – 800 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 9

Also descended from Vedic Sanskrit.

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