Re: Prakrits (was Re: [tied] Non-lexical language trees)

> Epigraphical evidence is emphatic: early epigraphs are all in
> Prakrits. It is only later that Samskr.tam epigraphs appear,

But this does not make the language later! Only the inscriptions! Sanskrit
was deliberately kept as an unwritten language. Even the Greeks, when they
arrived under Alexander, commented on that.

Peter