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Shauraseni Prakrit (Sanskrit: शौरसेनी प्राकृत, Śaurasenī Prākṛta) was a Middle Indo-Aryan language and a Dramatic Prakrit. Shauraseni was the chief language used in drama in northern medieval India. Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries, though it was probably a spoken vernacular around the 2nd century BCE in the ancient state of Surasena. Among the Prakrits, Shauraseni is said to be the one most closely related to Classical Sanskrit in that it "is derived from the Old Indian Indo-Aryan dialect of the Madhyadeśa on which Classical Sanskrit was mainly based."[1]^: 3–4 Its descendants include the languages of the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone of modern Indo-Aryan or Hindi languages, the standard registers of the Hindustani language based on the Delhi dialect.[2]

Shauraseni Prakrit
Śaurasenī
Brahmi: 𑀰𑁅𑀭𑀲𑁂𑀦𑀻
Region	India
Era	c. 2nd century BCE
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Shauraseni Prakrit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	psu
Glottolog	saur1252

See also

• Saurashtra language
• Apabhraṃśa
• Prakrit

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