Prakrit
prak·rit
noun
2.
any 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
Origin
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्राकृत (prākṛta).
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