Langenesis

Indo-European family

Shauraseni Prakrit

c. 300 BCE – 600 CE Extinct

Shauraseni Prakrit (c. 300 BCE – 600 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 12 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Indo-Aryan → Vedic Sanskrit → Shauraseni Prakrit.

See Shauraseni Prakrit on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
psu

Central Prakrit of the Mathura region, used for prose in Sanskrit drama and in Digambara Jain texts. Conventionally seen as ancestral to the Central and Western modern 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. Shauraseni Prakritc. 300 BCE – 600 CE

Descendants 3

Sister languages 9

Also descended from Vedic Sanskrit.

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