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Braj Bhasha was the leading language with its centre in the Braj(Mathura)region. But it stretched southwards to Agra,Bharatpur,Dholpur,Gwalior and the,eastern districts of the erstwhile jaipur State.In the north,it reached up to Gurgaon and in the north-east, 2.15
encircled Aligarh, Bulandshahar ,Etah, Mainpuri, Budaun,Bareilly and the Tarai area of Nainital. In Bulandshahar, it merged into Khari Boli, was undisputed in the literary domain. it
Haryani, also known as Bangroo and Jato, was spoken in the north-west of Delhi, 2.16.
the districts of Karnal, Rohtak, Hissar, etc. According to Grierson it was a variation of Khari Boli, with an admixture of Rajasthani and Punjabi dialects. The Khari Boli region comprised Western Rohilkhand, northern parts of Doab. Ambala and Kalsi. in
It is difficult to fix the definite point of time when modern, Indian languages supplanted Apabhranshas. The period is usually reckoned to be around 1000 A.D but the doha literary tradition in Apabhransha mixed language was found as early as 800 A. 2.17
and Apabhransha literature continued in trickle right upto the 14th, even the 15th D.
A. D. 2.18 Earliest literary compositions in Khari Boli are to be found in Rasos and Amir Khusrau's compositions. The authenticity of their reported age and even authorship is centuries
to doubt, as internal evidence suggests many later additions and interpolations. The language used in the Rasos is Braj, an admixture of Khari Boli and Rajasthani. 2.19 Then there is the cons derable volume of literature produced by the Buddhist open
and Nath panthiyogis. While the language of Siddhas has an admixture of Sidhas
the language of Nathpantis is different as they were based in the Punjab. 2.20 New influences were seeping into the modern Indian languages through Arabic flowing from the pre-Islamic Arab settlements along the Western Coast and later from Poorbi,
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Sind. persian and pushto words and phrases were also percolating through commercial and political contacts. With Iran and Afghanistan. Turkish was brought by the Turks the Mughals and other Trans-Oxonian elements. The impact was felt by various * Aryai Zabanen - 56
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