| has gloss | eng: Historical *Old Indic (ca. 1500-300 BC) **early Old Indic: Vedic Sanskrit (1500 to 500 BCE) **late Old Indic: Epic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit (500 to 300 BCE) *Middle Indic (ca. 300 BCE to 1500 CE) **early phase: 3rd century BC *** Ashoka-Prakrits (3rd century BC regional dialects) ***Pali (language of the Buddhist canon) ***early Ardhamagadhi (language of the oldest Jain sutras) **middle phase (200 BCE to 700 CE) ***Niya Prakrit *** Ardhamagadhi (later Jain canon) ***Dramatic Prakrits (Maurya period) ****Maharashtri Prakrit ****Magadhi Prakrit ****Sauraseni Prakrit ***Sinhala Prakrit ***hybrid Sanskrit (Mahayana canon) **late phase: Apabhramsa (700 CE to 1500 CE) ***Abahatta (Maghadi Apabhramsa) ***Elu (Sinhalese Apabhramsa) *Early Modern Indic (Mughal period, 1500 to 1800) **early Dakkhini (Kalmitul-hakayat 1580) **emergence of Khariboli (Gora-badal ki katha, 1620s) **emergence of "Urdu" at Delhi fort... |
