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Old Marathi

Old Marathi proper noun: an early New Indo-Aryan language and the ancestor of modern Marathi, spoken from c. 1000–1300 CE which is found in works such as the Jñānēśvarī and Līlācaritra.

Proper noun

Old Marathi

  1. An early New Indo-Aryan language and the ancestor of modern Marathi, spoken from c. 1000–1300 CE which is found in works such as the Jñānēśvarī and Līlācaritra.
    • Several Old Marathi inscriptions are found in Kannada script, while several Old Kannada inscriptions are available in Devanāgarī.1993, Madhav Deshpande, Sanskrit & Prakrit, Sociolinguistic Issues, Motilal Banarsidass, page 117

Questions about Old Marathi

What does Old Marathi mean?
Old Marathi means an early New Indo-Aryan language and the ancestor of modern Marathi, spoken from c. 1000–1300 CE which is found in works such as the Jñānēśvarī and Līlācaritra.
What part of speech is Old Marathi?
Old Marathi is a proper noun.

Words near Old Marathi in the dictionary

  1. old man's drip
  2. old man's eyebrow
  3. old man's friend
  4. old man's pepper
  5. Old Manipuri
  6. Old Marathi
  7. Old Marlburian
  8. Old Marlburians
  9. Old Marston
  10. old master
  11. old masters

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