[INDOLOGY] Traditional/ insider's view of language or dialect status of Prakrits

patrick mccartney psdmccartney at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 18:26:57 UTC 2015


I came across this interesting (attached) article that might help with the
discussion.

ANDREA DROCCO
(Università degli Studi di Torino)
Eternal Sanskrit and the meaning of the tripartite
Prakrit terminology tatsama, tadbhava and deśī. (2012)

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Hock, Hans Henrich <hhhock at illinois.edu>
wrote:

>  Language periodization, just like many aspects of textual periodization,
> is a perennial problem and only further complicates the picture. There are
> Prakritic forms as early as the Rig Veda (such as *vikaṭa* beside *vikṛta*,
> or *kitava* for expected *kṛtavat*).
>
>  Regarding Vedic “dialects”, there is an interesting paper by Emeneau: The
> dialects of Old Indo-Aryan. In: *Ancient Indo-European dialects*, ed. by
> Henrik Birnbaum and Jaan Puhvel, 123–138. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University
> of California Press, 1966.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Hans Henrich Hock
>
>
>  On 27-Dec-2014, at 3:38, Oleg Bendz <oleg.bendz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   2014-12-27
>
>  Dear All:
>
>  The "prakrit" of Gandhara (the Kushans) had an army, but maybe not a
> navy.
> Language periodization may be an important consideration.
> The problem of language and dialect may reside in the terminology itself.
> I should stop here.
>
>  O.Bendz
>
>
>   On Friday, December 26, 2014 5:48 PM, Matthew Kapstein <
> mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>
> >Ultimately, a clear distinction between “language” and “dialects” eludes
> even modern linguistics, in spite of long discussions of this issue.
>
> As Max Weinreich elegantly put it: "A language is a dialect with an army
> and navy."
>
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
>
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