Historical
Further information: Linguistic history of India- Old Indic (ca. 1500–300 BC)
- early Old Indic: Vedic Sanskrit (1500 to 500 BCE)
- late Old Indic: Epic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit (500 to 300 BCE)
- Middle Indic or Prakrits (ca. 300 BCE to 1500 CE)
- Early Modern Indic (Mughal period, 1500 to 1800)
- early Dakkhini (Kalmitul-hakayat 1580)
- emergence of Khariboli (Gora-badal ki katha, 1620s)
- emergence of "Urdu" at Delhi fort (1670s)
Read more about this topic: List Of Indo-Aryan Languages
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