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Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (521 words) |
 | The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas. |
| However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits. |
| Apabramsa was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century. |
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