Question

From which of the following languages, modern languages have developed?
A) Prakrit language
B) Apabhramsha language
C) Sangham language
D) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: The languages of India are divided into different language families, of which the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian dialects are the most generally spoken. There are likewise numerous dialects having a place with irrelevant language families like Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan, spoken by more modest gatherings. Semantic records start with the presence of the Brāhmī script from about the third century BCE.

Complete answer:
Apabhraṃśa is a term used by vyākaraṇin since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in North India before the development and usage of the modern languages. In the process of the development of modern languages like Marathi from the Prakrit languages, their original forms changed. Thus, they are called 'Apabhramsha languages'. Therefore, we can say that modern languages have developed from Apabhramsha languages. Hence, the given option is the correct answer.

Apabhramsha has various extraordinary phonological and morphological qualities. These highlights show a checked takeoff from the manufactured idea of the Old Indo-Aryan dialects, which had still been waiting in the beginning stages of the Middle Indo-Aryan, and made ready for the appearance of the New Indo-Aryan dialects. From the Apabhramsha language, modern languages have developed.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Apabhramsha language is the literary language of the last period of the Middle Indo-Aryan languages. When the Prakrit languages were formalized by artistic use, their varieties came to be known as Apabhramsha. In spite of this cosy relationship, researchers by and large treat Apabhramsha and the nonliterary Prakrits independently. By the sixth century, Apabhramsha was perceived as a scholarly language. A large portion of the surviving writing in Apabhramsha depends on Jain folklore, legends, and morals.