any of the modern Indic languagesany of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD
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Prakrit/ˈprɑːkrɪt/
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any of the vernacular Indic languages as distinguished from Sanskrit: spoken from about 300 bc to the Middle Ages 普拉克利特语; 古印度方言，与从公元前300年至中世纪说的梵语不同 → see also Pali