Langenesis

Indo-European family

Marathi

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Marathi (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan → Vedic Sanskrit → Maharashtri Prakrit → Marathi.

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Speakers
83M (83,000,000)
ISO 639-3
mar
Glottocode
mara1378

Southern Indo-Aryan. Old Marathi is attested from inscriptions of c. 1000–1100 CE and the Yadava-era literature (Dnyaneshwari, 1290).

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
  6. Marathic. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Maharashtri Prakrit.

Sources