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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:> If
you use the word "Prakrit" on a language list, you ought to mean by
it> what the rest of the world does. Sanskrit + Pali does not =
Prakrit any> more than Latin + Celtic = French.
Good point. This is more than a language list as the blurb on the
home page notes.
I have used the word in plural: pra_kr.t-s. My contention is that
there was never one Pra_kr.t language.
If there is an error in understanding, it is to be rectified. I
define pra_kr.ts as dialects, the proto-versions of the so-called
middle indo-aryan pra_kr.t; which means that pra_kr.ts are dialects
which could help reconstruct proto-indic or the indo- in IE.