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Prakrit

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Intangible historical_language Q192170
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Summary

Prakrit is a historical language[1]. Prakrit ranks in the top 7% of historical language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,953 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: language group[3]
  • Subclass of: Middle Indo-Aryan[4]
  • Part of: Classical Languages of India[5]
  • Commons category: Prakrit[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Prakrit languages[7]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Partially coincident with: Apabhraṃśa[14]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PRA[15]
  • Has grammatical gender: feminine[16], masculine[17], neuter[18]
  • Entry in abbreviations table: Pk.[19], پ[20]

Why It Matters

Prakrit has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Prakrit is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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