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Middle Indo-Aryan languages

The Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Middle Indic languages, sometimes conflated with the Prakrits, which are a stage of Middle Indic) are a historical group of languages of the Indo-Aryan family. They are the descendants of Old Indo-Aryan (OIA; attested through Vedic Sanskrit) and the predecessors of the modern Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindustani…

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Geographic distribution
Northern India
Glottolog
midd1350
Linguistic classification
Indo-IranianIndo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan · Indo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan · Middle Indo-Aryan

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Middle Indo-Aryan languages

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related to Pāli · 13
Middle Indo-Aryan languages → Abhidhamma, Buddhaghosa, Buddhists, Early Pāli, English, Magadhisms, Middle Indo-Aryan, Pali, Pāli, Sutta Nipāta, The Pali Text Society, These, Thomas William Rhys Davids
related to history · 8
Middle Indo-Aryan languages → Classical Sanskrit, Early Modern, Middle Indo-Aryan, Modern Indo-Aryan, Old Indo-Aryan, The, The Indo-Aryan, The Middle Indo-Aryan
Linguistic classification · 3
Middle Indo-Aryan languages → Indo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan, Indo-IranianIndo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan
Geographic distribution · 1
Middle Indo-Aryan languages → Northern India
Glottolog · 1
Middle Indo-Aryan languages → midd1350

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languages middle indo-aryan stage prakrits sanskrit early oia language modern bce pali texts mia later often represented pāli century ce

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Middle Indo-Aryan languagesGeographic distributionNorthern India1.00infobox
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesGlottologmidd13501.00infobox
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesLinguistic classificationIndo-IranianIndo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan1.00infobox
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesLinguistic classificationIndo-AryanMiddle Indo-Aryan1.00infobox
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesLinguistic classificationMiddle Indo-Aryan1.00infobox
Michael Cinstance ofModern scholars0.80text
Hindiinstance ofThe dual number in nominal declensions was lost.Consonantal stems were thematicised.The i-/u- and ī-/ū- declensions were merged into one ī-/ū- declension.The dative was eliminat…0.80text
Bengaliinstance ofThe dual number in nominal declensions was lost.Consonantal stems were thematicised.The i-/u- and ī-/ū- declensions were merged into one ī-/ū- declension.The dative was eliminat…0.80text
Abhidhammainstance ofcanonical developments0.80text
and a thriving commentarial tradition associated with figures such as Buddhaghosainstance ofcanonical developments0.80text
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesrelated to historyThe Indo-Aryan0.60section
Middle Indo-Aryan languagesrelated to historyOld Indo-Aryan0.60section

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