Under the patronage of the Satavahana Empire, Maharashtri became the most widespread Prakrit of its time, and also dominated the literary culture amongst the three " Dramatic " Prakrits of the time, Maharashtri, Sauraseni and Magadhi.

Some modern scholars follow this classification by including all Middle Indo-Aryan languages under the rubric of " Prakrits ", while others emphasise the independent development of these languages, often separated from the history of Sanskrit by wide divisions of caste, religion, and geography.

Some scholars restrict the use of the term " Prakrit " to the languages used by Hindu and Jain writers only ; others include the Buddhist languages, such as Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and the inscriptional Prakrits.

The modern languages of Northern India developed from the Prakrits, after the intermediary stage of the Apabhramsa language.

The oldest attested Prakrits are the Buddhist and Jain canonical languages Pali and Ardha Magadhi, respectively.

Though Konkani shows Dravidian substratum it definitely belongs to Indo-Ayan branch and is inflexive and non-dravidian, and is less distant from Sanskrit as compared to other modern Indo-Aryan languages. Konkani as per linguists is a fusion of variety of Prakrits. This could be attributed to confluence of the immigrants that Konkan coast has witnessed since times immemorial.

Dramatic Prakrits are important for the study of the development of Indo-Aryan languages, because their usage plays and literature is always accompanied by a translation in Sanskrit.

The three principal Dramatic Prakrits and some of their descendant languages:

While Prakrits were originally seen as " lower " forms of language, the influence they had on Sanskrit, allowing it to be more easily used by the common people, as well as " Sankritization " of Prakrits gave Prakrits progressively higher cultural cachet.

Immigrants spoke various vernaculars, which led to an admixture of features of Eastern and Western Prakrits. It was substantially influenced later by Magadhi Prakrit and the overtones of Pali ( the liturgical language of the Buddhists ) that played a very important role in development of Konkani Apabhramsha grammar and vocabulary.

It is surmised that the language of Urdu ( literally meaning " horde " or " camp " in various Turkic dialects ) was born during the Delhi Sultanate period as a result of the intermingling of the local speakers of Sanskritic Prakrits with immigrants speaking Persian, Turkic, and Arabic under the Muslim rulers.

It is surmised that the Urdu language ( literally meaning " horde " or " camp " in various Turkic dialects ) was born during this period as a result of the intermingling of the local speakers of Sanskritic Prakrits with immigrants speaking Persian, Turkic and Arabic under the Muslim rulers.

Dramatic Prakrits were those that were devised specifically for use in dramas and other literature.

However, there were a slew of other less commonly used Prakrits that also fall into this category.

Dramatic Prakrits were those standard forms of Prakrit dialects that were used in dramas and other literature in medieval India.

However, there were a slew of other less commonly used Prakrits that also fall into this category.

Traditionally, many have believed that the Prakrits are older than Sanskrit, and that it was from the Prakrits that Sanskrit was refined.

However, from a comparative Indo-European point of view, Sanskrit ( especially Vedic Sanskrit ) is closer to reconstructed Proto-Indo-European than are the Prakrits, so that Sanskrit belongs to a linguistically earlier stage of history.

Other Prakrits include the Gāndhārī, and Paisāci, which is known through grammarians ' statements.

None of these Prakrits came into being as vernaculars, but some ended up being used as such when Sanskrit fell out of favor.

The phrase " Dramatic Prakrits " often refers to three most prominent of them: Sauraseni, Magadhi, and Maharashtri.

There was an astoundingly strict structure to the use of these different Prakrits in dramas.

Outside the learned sphere of Sanskrit, vernacular dialects ( Prakrits ) continued to evolve.

By medieval times, the Prakrits had diversified into various Middle Indo-Aryan dialects.

In the following centuries, there was substantial immigration from Eastern India-Bengal ( Kalinga, Magadha ) which led to an admixture of features of Eastern Prakrits.

However, the Hindko and the archaic Dardic, Kohistani dialects and Pothohari dialect, derived from the local Indo-Aryan Prakrits, are still spoken, though the Afghan Pashto language is the most dominant language of the region today.

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The ancient Assyrians also used the Sumerian language in their literature and liturgy, although to a more limited extent in the Middle-and Neo-Assyrian periods, when Akkadian became the main literary language.

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